Is there too much violence in hip-hop music? What's the difference
between Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil' Kim? Is hip-hop culture
a "black" thing? Is it okay for N.W.A. to call themselves niggaz
and for Dave Chappelle to call everybody bitches? These witty,
provocative essays ponder these and other thorny questions, linking
the searing cultural issues implicit -- and often explicit -- in
hip-hop to the weighty matters examined by the great philosophers
of the past. The book shows that rap classics by Lauryn Hill,
OutKast, and the Notorious B.I.G. can help uncover the meanings of
love articulated in Plato's "Symposium; that Rakim, 2Pac, and Nas
can shed light on the conception of God's essence expressed in St.
Thomas Aquinas's "Summa Theologica; and explores the connection
between Run-D.M.C., Snoop Dogg, and Hegel. "Hip-Hop and Philosophy
proves that rhyme and reason, far from being incompatible, can be
mixed and mastered to contemplate life's most profound mysteries.
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