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  2. Hip-hop and social injustice - Wikipedia

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    The relationship between hip hop music and social injustice can be seen most clearly in two subgenres of hip hop, gangsta rap and conscious rap. Political hip hop has been criticized by conservative politicians such as Mississippi State Senator Chris McDaniel [ 1 ] as divisive and promoting separatism due to some hip hop artists' pro-black and ...

  3. Hip-hop culture - Wikipedia

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    Rapper Ice-T. With the commercial success of gangsta rap in the early 1990s, the emphasis in lyrics shifted to drugs, violence, and misogyny.Early proponents of gangsta rap included groups and artists such as Ice-T, who recorded what some consider to be the first gangsta rap single, "6 in the Mornin'", [68] and N.W.A whose second album Niggaz4Life became the first gangsta rap album to enter ...

  4. Progressive rap - Wikipedia

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    Progressive rap music is defined by its critical themes around societal concerns such as structural inequalities and political responsibility. According to Lincoln University professor and author Emery Petchaur, artists in the genre frequently analyze "structural, systematic, and reproduced" sources of oppression and inequality in the world, [3] while Anthony B. Pinn of Rice University ...

  5. Black Noise (book) - Wikipedia

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    In the book, Rose examines rap music and black culture by looking at urban culture politics and rap's racial politics. She also reflects on videos, song lyrics, and interviews with musicians, producers, and other people involved with the rap music industry.

  6. Golden age hip-hop - Wikipedia

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    The term golden age hip hop frames the late 1980s in mainstream hip hop, [20] said to be characterized by its diversity, quality, innovation and influence, [21] and associated with Public Enemy, KRS-One and his Boogie Down Productions, Eric B. & Rakim, Ultramagnetic MCs, [22] [23] De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, and the Jungle Brothers [24 ...

  7. Erica Mena Apologizes for Using Racial Slur on 'Love and Hip Hop'

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    Erica Mena apologized after she was fired from Love & Hip Hop Atlanta for using a racial slur. “I deeply regret my insensitive comment and want to humbly apologize to anybody I hurt or offended ...

  8. Naomi Campbell, Iman and Bethann Hardison Discuss Racial ...

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    The protesters have poured onto the streets in numbers like we haven’t seen all over the world. And the calls for racial equity have come from every corner including fashion.”

  9. Tricia Rose - Wikipedia

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    Hip Hop Futures - Talk at Cornell University about the current and future state of hip hop culture; State of the Black Union 2009: Speaks about issues about the economy, hip-hop, and urban culture Part 1, Part 2; Speaks about hip hop imagery, women and exploitation in an interview; Creating Conversations on Justice, Tricia Rose at ...