In this uneven critique of mainstream and socially conscious rap and hip-hop, McWhorter ("Losing the Race") pillories the genre for positioning itself as a politicaleven revolutionarymedium. In the authors analysis, hip-hop is typified by narcissism rather than altruism, a culture of complaint rather than creative solution and a willful blindness to the real problems affecting black communities; McWhorter demonstrates how frequently artists rail…
Author: John McWhorter · Original publisher: Gotham Books (Penguin, June 2008, ISBN 9781592403745)
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