Ebook {Epub PDF} Its Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation by M.K. Asante Jr.

“M. K. Asante, Jr. takes a bold and extremely engaging step, defining a new era for young Black America in the wake of commercial hip hop’s demise. With It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop, he begins a new, groundbreaking dialogue about what the post-hip-hop generation is fighting against and what direction that group needs to be headed in.” —Marcus Reeves, author of Somebody Scream! Rap Music’s Rise 4/5(32).  · In It's Bigger Than Hip Hop, M. K. Asante, Jr. looks at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured hip hop and is 5/5(1). In It's Bigger Than Hip Hop, M. K. Asante, Jr. looks at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured hip hop and is building a movement that will change not only the face of pop culture, but the world/5(50).

In It's Bigger Than Hip Hop, M. K. Asante, Jr. looks at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured hip hop and is building a movement that will change not only the face of pop culture, but the world. Asante, a young firebrand poet, professor, filmmaker, and activist who represents this movement, uses hip hop as a springboard for a larger. The origins of the term 'hip-hop' explicate this point further. In his book It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation, M.K. Asante Jr. notes The word 'hip' comes out of the Wolof language, spoken by the Wolof people in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania. In Wolof, there's a verb, 'hipi' which means 'to. It's Bigger Than Hip Hop takes a bold look at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured rap and is building a.

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation by M. K. Asante and M. K. Asante Jr. (, Hardcover). It's Bigger Than Hip Hop takes a bold look at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured rap and is building a movement that will change not only the face of pop culture, but the world. In It's Bigger Than Hip Hop, M. K. Asante, Jr. looks at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured hip hop and is building a movement that will change.