THE HIP HOP WARS: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop (2008), Paperback
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THE HIP HOP WARS: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop (2008), Paperback
Hip Hop/Rap/Gangsta/Race Paperback, Used
For years, the most commercially successful hip hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatures of black gangstas, thugs, pimps, and hos. This both represents and feeds a problem in black American culture. Or does it? In The Hip-Hop Wars, Rose explores the most crucial issues underlying the polarized claims on each side of the debate: Does hip hop cause violence, or merely reflect a violent ghetto culture? Is hip hop sexist, or are its detractors simply anti-sex? Does the portrayal of black culture in hip hop undermine black advancement? “The Hip Hop Wars is Crisis of the Negro Intellectual for the new millennium. Tricia Rose’s take on hip hop is smart, provocative, analytical, and gutsy
