... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.
Bell HooksHip-Hop is diverse. But the white, capitalist producers and distributors of Hip-Hop are most interested in the Hip-Hip that is misogynist, that is Black-hating, that is pugilistic, that is to say all about fighting and war and killing and gangsterism.
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