- Young white teen have an appetite for hip hop.
- Hip Hop's market grew wider in 1991 after the sound scan due to whites.
- "Efil4zaggin" was an album from N.W.A that was thought to be some pretty racist trash.
- Rap's crossover appeal represented a strange form of cultural tourism for many young whites.
- However N.W.A made way for hip hop to expand itself.
Questions I Have
- How often does Hip Hop set a new standard?
- Will Hip Hop ever rise from its birth place (ghetto), into the hands of whites?
- Is it something that blacks created just so they express themselves?
- How can artists only become one-hit wonders when it takes so much talent and intelligence to make an album?
Unknown Words
- Clarion (page 97)- clear and shrill: the clarion call of a battle trumpet.
- Vicariously (p. 97)- performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
- Visceral (p.97) - characterized by or proceeding from instinct rather than intellect: a visceral reaction.
Literary Terms
- Simile (Page 97) - "Hip Hop was their fantasy island, a place to travel largely through the pleasures of consumption- rather than actual contact into a foreign world..."
- Alliteration (Page 100)- "As Slim Shady her fired back..."
Summarizing Statement
During this part of the book Watkins discusses N.W.A's success and also some of the humiliation he has faced. He also like talking about Eminem and how hard it was for him to become successful and obtain his celebrity status.
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