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Hip-Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason

Hip-Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason

Darby, Derrick
Shelby, Tommie
Irwin, William

Paperback

Series: Popular Culture & Philosophy, Book 16

PhilosophyGeneral SociologyHip Hop

Publisher Price: $26.95

ISBN10: 0812695895
ISBN13: 9780812695892
Publisher: Open Court
Published: Oct 26 2005
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.04
Language: English
Is there too much violence in hip-hop music? What's the difference between Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil' Kim? Is hip-hop culture a black thing? Is it okay for N.W.A. to call themselves niggaz and for Dave Chappelle to call everybody bitches? These witty, provocative essays ponder these and other thorny questions, linking the searing cultural issues implicit -- and often explicit -- in hip-hop to the weighty matters examined by the great philosophers of the past. The book shows that rap classics by Lauryn Hill, OutKast, and the Notorious B.I.G. can help uncover the meanings of love articulated in Plato's Symposium; that Rakim, 2Pac, and Nas can shed light on the conception of God's essence expressed in St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica; and explores the connection between Run-D.M.C., Snoop Dogg, and Hegel. Hip-Hop and Philosophy proves that rhyme and reason, far from being incompatible, can be mixed and mastered to contemplate life's most profound mysteries.

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