Hip Hop Hysteria

By Salim Muwakkil

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 [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    Could 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).

    Problem: text on right margin of every page is cut off mid-word making every story basically unreadable.

    Am I missing something like is this a not-so-subtle attempt to get me to subscribe?   

    United States Posted by Jon Pearson on Jan 21, 2003 at 3:25 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.

    pri7m

    United States Posted by mc prizm on May 14, 2003 at 3:09 PM
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