Ms. YVONNE BYNOE (Author, Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture): I think it's very important.
Hip Hop culture encompasses some of the misunderstood yet wildly celebrated elements of pop culture.
McWhorter eloquently weighs in on hip hop culture with lopsided moralizing in New York's City Journal.
The studio also signifies being a beacon to true hip hop culture.
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This is my best argument for the study of hip hop culture, and for the intellectual examination and self-criticism that it provokes.
Some are directed at "members of the post-civil rights era generation of Black academics" who matured as writers and intellectuals during the rise of hip hop culture.
Today, 34-year-old journalist Jason Tanz is taking a close look at white youth and hip-hop culture.
Take rap music and hip-hop culture, which sprang from a world that few people knew or understood.
And the early rap generation overwhelmingly sampled his music and voice as they laid the foundation of hip-hop culture.
As the operators obliged, the new channel generated enormous excitement in black America just as hip-hop culture, with its swaggering multimillionaire entertainers and athletes, was emerging.
And, as in other parts of the world, certain aspects of hip-hop culture have made their way onto Chinese billboards and pop charts, as well as into Chinese theme songs and television advertising.
Ms. TONI BLACKMAN (Musician): I think my music is really in the vein of a Lauryn Hill, of a Mos Def, of a Talib Kweli, of the Roots, of artists who are part of hip-hop culture and really committed not only to being on stage and being in the limelight but really committed to the art form and to the tradition of the oral tradition.
Ms. LATIFAH: Hip-hop and music and culture is going anywhere I go.
The casual misogyny of some black popular culture, especially hip-hop music and videos, is a disgrace.
But as long as hip-hop's hold on pop culture remains strong, the number of rappers crossing-over into the movies is expected to grow.
Jay-Z accused the company of racism, at which point the company issued a statement saying the official had never made such a comment, and that the company has the utmost regard for all forms of art and culture - including hip-hop.
By taking the time to explain a fertile culture of expression, students of hip hop place at our disposal some of the most intriguing investigations of a powerful art form.
McDaniels travels, speaking on the history of hip-hop and telling the story of how the street culture of a few New York neighborhoods struggled for and won respect.
Writing in Newsday, Pearson condemns Harvard's Du Bois Institute for housing a hip hop archive because its scholars deem the art form and culture on which it rests to be worthy of study.
So when we think about Hip Hop, I think that there would be some that would credibly argue that Hip Hop has really influenced and is the most influential component of popular culture today.
But Kilson couldn't acknowledge that since it would ruin his argument, much as the critics of hip hop don't want to spoil their biases through concrete engagements with the culture they despise.
Sadly, the enlightened aspects of hip hop are overlooked by critics who are out to satisfy a grudge against black youth culture and are too angry or self-righteous to listen and learn.
It was a major growth moment for me as an artist because, you know, I'm committed to my mission of using hip-hop to - as a tool for social change and using hip-hop as a way to spread information, correct information about the music and the culture and about me as an American and me as a black American woman, and going to Indonesia was an intense experience.
Since the popularization of hip-hop, and as the result of other dynamics, as well, the lines between races and culture have become less visible.
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Pearson appears to be ashamed of hip hop, a feeling he shares with many blacks and others who decry its sordid images as the refuse of the culture that should be taken away with the garbage.
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