Hip Hop Matters: Poltics, Pop culture, and the Struggle for the Sould of a Movement{pgs 1-25}

5 Comments:
1. Hip hop has seemed to evolve in many ways over a certain time period and it still seems to keep evolving.
2. There are mnay feuds that have come from hip hop, such as between 50cent and Ja Rule.
3. Many people feel as though hip hop doesn't matter anymore and its not that important anyore to society as a whole.
4. Hip hop bergan to grow to be more than just people rapping during the 80's and 90's.
5. Many do not believe that hip hop should be apartt of the political world because of its language and message to the people.

4 Questions:
1. Why do so many people believe that hip hop doesn't matter?
2. why are there so many feuds in hip hop? Are they really neccassary?
3. What wee the reasons that mnay believed hip hop to be important?
4. Why does it shape the youths in a society that listen to it?

3 Vocabulary words:
1. juggernaut{pg 2}: A massive and destructive force or object.
2. vitrolic{pg 3}: caustic remarks
3. conglomeration{pg 4}: to form or cause to form into a mass of adhereing material.

2 Literary Terms:
1. Imagery: There was a lot of imagery being used where you almost feel and see what was going on in the time or period. {pg 11}

1 Sentence Summary:
Hip hop was all about chnaging and it was changing fast from MCing to record labels and rappers that have feuds with one another.