Review of Tricia Rose. 2008. The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop-And Why It Matters. New York: Basic/Civitas Books
As hip hop slowly settles into middle age, the pitched battles of its younger years have frozen in a stalemate. Critics of hip hop repeat the same attacks they leveled at NWA, decrying violence, misogyny, and homophobia in hiphop lyrics, and in the most extreme cases branding its creators as Typhoi...
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Columbia University Libraries
2010-03-01
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| Series: | Current Musicology |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5175 |