Add to ORKGRoger Fairfax analyzes LL Cool J’s 1990 song, “Illegal Search,” as a precursor to later hip-hop critiques of policing. This song represented LL Cool J’s awakening to social consciousness in the 1990s. “Illegal Search” represented helped advance a narrative about policing that remains prominent in hip-hop to this day. “Illegal Search” might have been overlooked completely since the only track to follow is “Power of God,” a low-energy, spiritual offering that, while delivering a positive message, is perhaps the least familiar of the fourteen cuts on the album.“Illegal Search” surveys a number of discrete topics, including racial profiling, the manufacture and planting of evidence, police brutality, incarceration, and even seems to reference a...
The title of this chapter is taken from a verse in Ice-T’s 1992 track “Body Count” on the infamous d...
This dissertation examined the political philosophy of Hip Hop culture (HC), and whether it qualifie...
In a world where impoverished urban black youth are under attack from all political factions, rap mu...
Roger Fairfax analyzes LL Cool J’s 1990 song, “Illegal Search,” as a precursor to later hip-hop crit...
Political rap is an art form used as a form of political protest to dismantle oppressive practices w...
I argue that hip hop music and culture profoundly influences attitudes toward and perceptions about ...
Policing hip hop: Police and Other Agents of Control in Montreal Night Clubs Anthony Mclachlan Hi...
Over the past few decades, rap and hip-hop music have played important roles in the entertainment in...
Music’s depth is easy to overlook during casual listening. We often listen to a song without fully c...
Over the past four decades, rap and hip hop culture have taken a central place in popular music both...
The 1970s brought about a new and exciting urban art form called hip hop. By the 1980s and 90s, hip ...
This research is descriptive qualitative research taking three 50 Cent songs included Many Men, The ...
Rap music is the sound and soul of the Hip Hop culture—a powerful social, musical, and political phe...
Hip-Hop has been a vehicle of consciousness, controversy, and change since its birth on August 11, 1...
Intellectual property law reaches every aspect of the world, society, and creativity. Sometimes, cre...
The title of this chapter is taken from a verse in Ice-T’s 1992 track “Body Count” on the infamous d...
This dissertation examined the political philosophy of Hip Hop culture (HC), and whether it qualifie...
In a world where impoverished urban black youth are under attack from all political factions, rap mu...
Roger Fairfax analyzes LL Cool J’s 1990 song, “Illegal Search,” as a precursor to later hip-hop crit...
Political rap is an art form used as a form of political protest to dismantle oppressive practices w...
I argue that hip hop music and culture profoundly influences attitudes toward and perceptions about ...
Policing hip hop: Police and Other Agents of Control in Montreal Night Clubs Anthony Mclachlan Hi...
Over the past few decades, rap and hip-hop music have played important roles in the entertainment in...
Music’s depth is easy to overlook during casual listening. We often listen to a song without fully c...
Over the past four decades, rap and hip hop culture have taken a central place in popular music both...
The 1970s brought about a new and exciting urban art form called hip hop. By the 1980s and 90s, hip ...
This research is descriptive qualitative research taking three 50 Cent songs included Many Men, The ...
Rap music is the sound and soul of the Hip Hop culture—a powerful social, musical, and political phe...
Hip-Hop has been a vehicle of consciousness, controversy, and change since its birth on August 11, 1...
Intellectual property law reaches every aspect of the world, society, and creativity. Sometimes, cre...
The title of this chapter is taken from a verse in Ice-T’s 1992 track “Body Count” on the infamous d...
This dissertation examined the political philosophy of Hip Hop culture (HC), and whether it qualifie...
In a world where impoverished urban black youth are under attack from all political factions, rap mu...