REA-DING, a love & hate situation...

Okay, so I do love reading, and recently I picked up a book called:

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop by M.K. Asante Jr.

Brief Summ:

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop uses hip hop as a springboard to discuss the urgent social and political issues affecting the hip-hop and post hip-hop generations past and up to 2008.

Reviews:

REVIEW_1 by POPMATTERS

&

REVIEW_2 by GLOBAL GRIND

I DIG IT.

HERE ARE SOME REALLY INTERESTING QUOTES from HIP HOP FIGURES, about hip hop and who REALLLY SEEMS to own it.

It's nothin black about the head niggas thats running the industry, they
not even niggas.-JADAKISS

Foreigners, who have not studied economics but have studied NEGROES, take
up business and grow RICH.-Dr. Harold Cruise

Black Culture is toooooo significant in American Culture for Blacks to be
Glorified employees.-Russell Simmons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love that quote.

Now, as then we find ourselves bound, first without, then within, by the nature of our categorizations. -James baldwin

DEEP, go cop it, or borrow it.