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That's the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader brings together the best-known and most influential writings on rap and hip-hop from its beginnings to today. Spanning nearly 25 years of scholarship, criticism, and journalism, this unprecedented anthology showcases the evolution and continuing... read more

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In his 1995 paean "Old School" (1995, Interscope), Tupac Shakur pays tribute to hip-hop's formative stages and its pioneers with detailed references to everyday teen practices, clothing styles, and a general attitude or way of being as the cultural underpinnings of hip-hop took shape almost twenty years prior.

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  1. Mark Anthony Neal (Author)

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  1. anthology
  2. hip hop
  3. hip-hop studies
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