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Intro Jay-Z | p. ix |
Prelude: "What's Beef?": Hip Hop and Its Critics | p. xiii |
"How Real is This?" | p. 1 |
Prisons, iPods, Pimps, and the Search for Authentic Homes | p. 3 |
"This Dark Diction has Become America's Addiction" | p. 39 |
Language, Diaspora, and Hip Hop's Bling Economy | p. 41 |
"It's Trendy To Be the Conscious MC" | p. 59 |
Culture, Rhetoric, Crack, and the Politics of Rap | p. 61 |
"Cover Your Eyes As I Describe a Scene So Violent" | p. 89 |
Violence, Machismo, Sexism, and Homophobia | p. 91 |
(The Gender Remix): "Nappy-Head Ho's, Worse Than Bitch Niggaz" | p. 123 |
Don Imus, the Crisis of Patriarchy, and the Death and Rebirth of Hip Hop | p. 125 |
Outro: Nas | p. 153 |
Special Thanks | p. 157 |
Index | p. 159 |
About the Author | p. 171 |
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