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Learning to Rap

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Greif, M. (2016). Learning to Rap. In Greif, M. Against Everything: Essays. Verso, pp. 136-166

(from the Greek for "to lead out") a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, particularly a religious text

There are now countless hip-hop-lyric exegetical sites that try to resolve what is being said.

by Mark Greif
notable
7 years, 6 months ago

There are now countless hip-hop-lyric exegetical sites that try to resolve what is being said.

by Mark Greif
notable
7 years, 6 months ago

any of the four tassels or fringes on garments worn by the Jews in remembrance of the commandments

I wasn't putting on a yarmulke and tsitsith

by Mark Greif
unknown
7 years, 6 months ago

I wasn't putting on a yarmulke and tsitsith

by Mark Greif
unknown
7 years, 6 months ago

[...] They will call it "the n-word"--write it on a chalkboard rather than pronounce it--clear their thraots and give meaningful looks or avoid people's eyes. This was a sort of victory for antiracism. But the conspicuous theater of it, the sheer ostentation of the one word I will not speak, also has wound up showing off how little it can mean in comparison to all the racism white people don't give up, and equally won't name or speak. White people in authority are okay with seeing black people profiled, demonized, and terrorized by police. They just won't say one word, which of course they can say perfectly well. [...]

by Mark Greif 7 years, 5 months ago

[...] They will call it "the n-word"--write it on a chalkboard rather than pronounce it--clear their thraots and give meaningful looks or avoid people's eyes. This was a sort of victory for antiracism. But the conspicuous theater of it, the sheer ostentation of the one word I will not speak, also has wound up showing off how little it can mean in comparison to all the racism white people don't give up, and equally won't name or speak. White people in authority are okay with seeing black people profiled, demonized, and terrorized by police. They just won't say one word, which of course they can say perfectly well. [...]

by Mark Greif 7 years, 5 months ago

performance venues throughout the eastern, southern, and upper midwest areas of the US that were safe for black performers during the era of racial segregation in the US

in the fifties when not on the chitlin circuit

by Mark Greif
unknown
7 years, 6 months ago

in the fifties when not on the chitlin circuit

by Mark Greif
unknown
7 years, 6 months ago

a business or manufacturing activity carried on in a person's home

This was a capitalist innovation, though one at the level of cottage industry.

by Mark Greif
uncertain
7 years, 6 months ago

This was a capitalist innovation, though one at the level of cottage industry.

by Mark Greif
uncertain
7 years, 6 months ago

exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing

Soon even commercial hip-hop was drawing in electronic dance music, private musing, monomania, and gloom.

by Mark Greif
notable
7 years, 6 months ago

Soon even commercial hip-hop was drawing in electronic dance music, private musing, monomania, and gloom.

by Mark Greif
notable
7 years, 6 months ago