Word: hip-hop
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...stories or just recounting information…I began to immerse myself in rap, viewing it as a natural extension of my respect for the word and for communication. In high school, I began performing in poetry-slams after some guidance from an English teacher, in addition to small hip-hop concerts, and thus was introduced to the “spoken word,” or performance poetry. For me though, a lot of the barriers in genre-title don’t exist. I view hip-hop and rap as poetry: any time an individual takes words...
Adisa Banjoko, a provocative hip-hop journalist and author of Lyrical Swords, gave a 45-minute speech about Islamic influence on hip-hop cultures...
Banjoko explained that the rise in popularity of hip-hop was a result of social pressures of the early 1970s and the aftermath of 1960s civil rights movements...
...Hip-hop made it cool for black kids to be smart,” Banjoko said...
...Banjoko said that African-American Christian churches immediately began to attack the fledgling hip-hop movement, creating tension between African-American youth and traditional Christianity...