Buttafly is blogging about Music As Beauty..an excerpt from T. Semakula's upcoming book titled..The Food Stamp Bandit
by T. Semakula
Hip
Hop music became the cultural essays that were written inside project
apartments. These essays were drafted on legal paper with blue ink. Hip Hop
music beautified the complexity of hood intellect and caught the attention of
educators and scholars.…While mainstream American media consistently
portray urban youth of color from a stereotypical, deficit-based, and
deleterious standpoint, these images run in startling contrast to portrayals in
rap music. Rap music artists, instead, consistently document the neglect and abandonment
of youth of color in America's devastated inner-city landscapes…
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