Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip-Hop

Name: Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip-Hop
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ISBN: 9780465017164

ISBN-10: 0465017169

ISBN-13: 9780465017164

Edition: 2007

Authors: Michael Eric Dyson, NAS, Nas

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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 7/10/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Intro Jay-Z


Prelude: "What's Beef?": Hip Hop and Its Critics



"How Real is This?"


Prisons, iPods, Pimps, and the Search for Authentic Homes



"This Dark Diction has Become America's Addiction"


Language, Diaspora, and Hip Hop's Bling Economy



"It's Trendy To Be the Conscious MC"


Culture, Rhetoric, Crack, and the Politics of Rap



"Cover Your Eyes As I Describe a Scene So Violent"


Violence, Machismo, Sexism, and Homophobia



(The Gender Remix): "Nappy-Head Ho's, Worse Than Bitch Niggaz"


Don Imus, the Crisis of Patriarchy, and the Death and Rebirth of Hip Hop


Outro: Nas


Special Thanks


Index


About the Author