“La di da di, we like to party” alongside “I never prayed to God, I prayed to Gotti.” Hip-hop arose from want.
Hip-hop is Julia Roberts after being written off in “Pretty Woman” by that snooty sales lady: Big mistake.
There’s almost nowhere hip-hop hasn’t been: the White House, the Pulitzers, the Oscars, the sitcom, the Louvre, syllabi, country radio, fashion week, Sesame Street.
Even when its practitioners aren’t Black, maybe especially when they’re white, hip-hop incriminates the country that drove its people to dream it up in the first place.
Hip-hop is what this country gets.
Persons:
“, Gotti, ”, Julia Roberts, Gucci Mane, Bey, it’s, Eminem, Nicki Minaj, Kendrick Lamar, we’re
Organizations:
Black America, “, bohemians
Locations:
America