“After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate manifestation of hip-hop, sold as a commodity and package with sensational race, sex and violent imagery, and the hip-hop culture that kids are living everyday at a local level, which often doesn't dabble in that terrain.” ShouldYearsKidsCultureNationsSexLevelsRaceAcceptingShould HaveEverydayHip HopViolentLocalsHipsCorporateManifestationDistinctionHopsCommodityImageryPackagesSophisticationTerrainSensationalLive Everyday Author:Bakari Kitwana
“I'm not a poster boy for misogyny and I don't think hip-hop should be either.” ThinkingShouldBoysHip HopHipsHopsMisogynyPosters Author:Bakari Kitwana
“My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power that can change the conditions for America's young, so that young people upon graduating from high school who don't have economic means to go to college can realize other options beyond joining the military and fighting in wars that enrich corporations like Halliburton which should feel guilty about profiteering off of a war that is being fought on the backs of those locked out of America's mainstream economy.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsShouldMeanWarSchoolAmericaYoungPoliticalFightingRealizingEconomyEconomicConditionsMilitaryMovementCollegeHigh SchoolHip HopGuiltyHipsCorporationsHopsGraduatesMainstreamLockedTranslateJoiningPolitical PowerGraduating High SchoolJoining The Military Author:Bakari Kitwana
