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By Derrick Darby, Tommie Shelby
Is there an excessive amount of violence in hip-hop track? What’s the variation among Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil' Kim? Is hip-hop tradition a "black" factor? Is it ok for N.W.A. to name themselves niggaz and for Dave Chappelle to name every body bitches? those witty, provocative essays think about those and different thorny questions, linking the searing cultural matters implicit — and sometimes specific — in hip-hop to the weighty concerns tested by way of the nice philosophers of the prior. The e-book exhibits that rap classics by means of Lauryn Hill, OutKast, and the infamous B.I.G. can assist discover the meanings of affection articulated in Plato's Symposium; that Rakim, 2Pac, and Nas can make clear the belief of God's essence expressed in St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica; and explores the relationship among Run-D.M.C., Snoop Dogg, and Hegel. Hip-Hop and Philosophy proves that rhyme and cause, faraway from being incompatible, should be combined and mastered to consider life's such a lot profound mysteries.
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