Frames hip-hop as the defining cultural force in the aftermath of
the Civil Rights and Black Power eras When Lauryn Hill stepped
forward to accept her fifth Grammy Award in 1999, she paused as she
collected the last trophy, and seeming somewhat startled said,
"This is crazy, 'cause this is hip hop music.'" Hill's astonishment
at receiving mainstream acclaim for music once deemed insignificant
testifies to the explosion of this truly revolutionary art form.
Hip hop music and the culture that surrounds it-film, fashion,
sports, and a whole way of being-has become the defining ethos for
a generation. Its influence has spread from the state's capital to
the nation's capital, from the Pineapple to the Big Apple, from
'Frisco to Maine, and then on to Spain. But moving far beyond the
music, hip hop has emerged as a social and cultural movement,
displacing the ideas of the Civil Rights era. Todd Boyd maintains
that a new generation, having grown up in the aftermath of both
Civil Rights and Black Power, rejects these old school models and
is instead asserting its own values and ideas. Hip hop is
distinguished in this regard because it never attempted to go
mainstream, but instead the mainstream came to hip hop. The New
H.N.I.C., like hip hop itself, attempts to keep it real, and
challenges conventional wisdom on a range of issues, from debates
over use of the "N-word," the comedy of Chris Rock, and the "get
money" ethos of hip hop moguls like Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and
Russell Simmons, to hip hop's impact on a diverse array of figures
from Bill Clinton and Eminem to Jennifer Lopez. Maintaining that
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech is less important
today than DMX's It's Dark and Hell is Hot, Boyd argues that Civil
Rights as a cultural force is dead, confined to a series of media
images frozen in another time. Hip hop, on the other hand,
represents the vanguard, and is the best way to grasp both our
present and future.
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