Hip Hop Matters by S. Craig Watkins

What I Understand

1. In 1991, WOWI NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, became the first radio station to play rap throughout the day.



2. The radio was split into about seven different formats.



3. As some songs were doing well on the Billboard, not all the time were they doing good on the black charts.



4. Eminem is one of the first artists to break the racial boundary for hip hop.



5. N.W.A has never reached top spot on the R&B chart.

Questions I have

1. Is there another Caucasian rapper like Eminem in the rap game?
2. How long will the rap industry last?
3. How does the rap industry affect the children who listen to it?
4. How will this industry increase its reputation?

Unknown words

1. Interloper (Page 86)- to intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license.
2. Corrosive (page 86)- harmful or destructive; deleterious.
3. Vernacular (Page 87)- expressed or written in the native language of a place, as literary works.

Literary terms

1. Metaphor (Pagge 89)- "Taking music on the Internet is no different that from taking it from a store.
2. Similie (Page 91) - "When Benzino reffered to Eminem as Vanilla Ice 2003 it was a deliberate attack on the rapper's whiteness, a calculated attempted to reestablish hip hop's racial borders.

Summarizing Statement

During this part of the book there is a description of how rapper range of celebrity depends on many music charts.