Michael Eric Dyson Quotes About Hip Hop

Quotes about: Hip Hop

• Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Light, Race, Black Youth

  Michael Eric Dyson (2010). “Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip Hop”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

• He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Rap, Hip Hop, May

• Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Hip Hop, Pavement, Hips

• ..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as he encourages them not to look at hip-hop as their salvation.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Rapper, Racism, Hip Hop

  Michael Eric Dyson (2008). “Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?.”, p.32, Basic Civitas Books

• Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Impact, Hip Hop, Political

• Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  America, Years, Hip Hop

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Clothing Line, Black Youth, Clothes

  "Is Bill Cosby Right?". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2005.

• Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Intelligent, Offering, Seductive

  Michael Eric Dyson (2010). “Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip Hop”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

• If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there's a deep and profound hunger for a new politics to come forth. And a guy like him has been able to mobilize that and to reach certain parts of the hip-hop generation.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Profound, Hip Hop, Guy

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