Hip-Hop Matters Creating Yourself In the concluding volume of

In the concluding volume of his groundbreaking study

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Hip-Hop Matters Creating Yourself In the concluding volume ofAvoiding the easy definitions and caricatures that tend to celebrate or condemn the hip hop generation, Hip Hop Matters focuses on fierce and far reaching battles being waged in politics, pop culture, and academe to assert control over the movement. At stake, Watkins argues, is the impact hip hop has on the lives of the young people who live and breathe the culture. He presents incisive analysis of the corporate takeover of hip hop and the rampant