Mi Say WAR: Hip-Hop vs. The Bourgeois West … and ‘Hip-Hop Studies’? (A Review of Tricia Rose’s The Hip-Hop Wars, For Example) by Greg Thomas “It’s bigger than religion Hip-Hop It’s bigger than my nigga Hip-Hop It’s bigger than the government [Erykah Badu, “The Healer / Hip-Hop” (2008)] And it’s much bigger than academic criticism, for sure. Sylvia…
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Jared A. Ball is a Professor of Communication and Africana Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power (Palgrave, 2020 / 2nd Edition, 2023). Ball is also host of the podcast “iMiXWHATiLiKE!”, he can be found @imixwhatilike on most social media, and his decades of emancipatory journalism,…
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