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...America and hip-hop performers formed a relationship that would result in the near-total commodification of hip-hop. Some performers, like the Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff, accepted this incorporation outright; others, like Public Enemy and the gangsta rap collective NWA (or Niggaz Wit Attitude), saw hip-hop??s expansion as an opportunity to vent their frustrations with the social order in America...
Some self-destructive blacks who actually suffer from nihilism—a sense of hopelessness so severe that a person no longer actively pursues a meaningful life—take hip-hop??s public celebration of this outlook to justify their lifestyle. Today’s hip-hop industry portrays such self-destruction as normative—a development which can only prove problematic for the advancement of black people worldwide. The rest of America, buffered by lingering segregation, is unable or unwilling to discern fantasy from reality and consumes this imagery as authentic, with real effects. Because...
These individuals celebrate black intelligence and creativity and provide a veritable light at the end of the tunnel. They have combined “Ghetto CNN” realism with early hip-hop??s vitality and an American entrepreneurial spirit. They showcase ways that we can use hip-hop??s best traits to attack nihilism and alienation in America by challenging the prevailing discourse and undertaking political and economic ventures to create change. If our generation fails to reclaim its most powerful cultural achievement from those who would put profit before progress, we will undoubtedly...
...Reynolds is really self-consciously charming; his shiny new pair of abdominal muscles only brightens his charm. Jessica Biel is just as pissed off as she was when she played Mary on Seventh Heaven, but now she has an iPod on which she listens to “trip-hop?? while killing vampires with a bow and arrow. It is just as holy a role only more aggressive. Professional wrestler Triple-H, in the role of a vampire thug, seems dumb, but conveys no actorly mannerisms. He is either really dumb or really good at acting really dumb...
...Hip” refers to the night’s musical style of choice (hip-hop), while the “HOP?? stands for the Housing Opportunity Program, the organization for which the benefit was held, and to which all the night’s proceeds went...