Word: hipping
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...address a topic close to both their hearts. "Man!" says Bell. "Can I hear it? Can I hear the demo?" The congregant, an affable young part-time musician named Joel, who dresses like a long-lost Ramone, mumbles bashfully, "I can burn you one." "Great!" exclaims Bell, whose geeky-hip glasses, black pants, black shirt and polyester white belt make their own statement. "Hey, man," he adds, "I saw the Arctic Monkeys." This is cool, Joel agrees. That itch scratched, Bell, whom the Chicago Sun-Times has called an heir to Billy Graham, heads off to give a sermon...
...That is, unless you exploit it like Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock, who used Taylor’s murder as an opportunity to bash his favorite piñata: hip-hop. Whitlock has a long history of railing against gangster rap and the element of black culture it represents—the “Black KKK,” as he calls it. To Whitlock, the evolution of this genre is a cause of black Americas’ high crime rates and low socioeconomic status. He puts some of the blame for Taylor’s death, as well...
...Ironically, Whitlock disproves his argument with his own words. His theory concerning the detrimental effects of hip-hop is based on the premise that the behaviors follow the music. But any sensible person sees the endogeneity problem. The existence of rap music can be explained by the prevalence of the behaviors it glorifies. It may sound like a chicken and egg problem, but in this case, the causation is actually pretty clear. Misogyny, violence, and crime have all been endemic to and glorified in America since long before rap music ever existed. Specifically, the rise of the lucrative crack-cocaine...
...become a mobster after watching it. The same goes for most cultural phenomenon during any given era, as The Nation contributor Dave Zirin writes: “Music and culture are reflections—sometimes very ugly reflections—of … harsh realities…Blaming hip-hop for our current state is like blaming the pan-flute and zither for the crusades.” In an economy where pop culture is marketed, packaged, and sold, the product must, by necessity, reflect society’s values. Obviously, misogyny, violence and crime sell?...
...home. I live in Chicago.The environmental and economic benefits of train travel are well documented: the emissions per passenger per mile are about one-tenth of flying, for example, and it was only after the Red Line was extended through Davis Square that that part of Somerville became the hip, up-and-coming neighborhood that it is today.But while I am a longtime Sierra Club member—and an economics concentrator to boot—these factors aren’t what compel me to make the 21-hour train ride back to Illinois.I’ll play...