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What's your favorite hip hop related book?
I was recommended The Hip Hop Wars but I'm not sure if it'll be worthwhile to pick up, anyone read it?
i would add to this the hip hop wars by trisha rose.
>Hip-hop is in crisis. For the past dozen years, the most commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatures of black gangstas, thugs, pimps, and ’hos. The controversy surrounding hip-hop is worth attending to and examining with a critical eye because, as scholar and cultural critic Tricia Rose argues, hip-hop has become a primary means by which we talk about race in the United States.
>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?
Read The Hip Hop Wars, if you guys want to know how it really goes down. Scholarly work by Tricia Rose, you may recognize her as the Author of "Black Noise" too. Basically fuck Clear Channel radio, and suited old white men trying to decide what 13-18 white girls want to hear. Those are your radio bangers. Pretty simple, and pretty obvious that average listeners have no say in what is "popular music."