Serious social critics could once dismiss hip hop’s purveyors as a bunch of crude vulgarians extolling ghetto-centric lifestyles. No longer. Hip hop has become one of the most influential U.S. cultural exports. In virtually every city on the planet, there are hip hop communities that not only have adopted the percussion-heavy music and spoken-word vocals, but have appropriated the sartorial and… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pagesCould someone forward this to the web editor for In These Times? I can’t get through via the email link (tells me I’m not logged on).
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Posted by Jon Pearson on Jan 21, 2003 at 11:25 PM Mr. Muwakkil makes several good points in his article. However to claim that hiphop originated in the streets of NYC would be to do a great disservice to the father of hiphop and originator of the two-turntable sound, Cool Herc. Also there was no mention of Afrika Bambaataa or the Zulu Nation. I feel that he could have done more with the space allotted. Word to the wise from one who knows… look past the commercial hip pop to the underground to apprehend the true face of hiphop… stay ruff and speak the truth, brothers.
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