prison industrial complex – Quilan 'Cue' Arnold

Put Your Hands Up: Hip-hop, Incarceration, and The Fate of the Black Male pt 3

on March 17, 2016March 24, 2016 By cue4christ

Part 3: Ice Cube—previous member of the rap group, NWA—in The Art of Rap says, “What [street knowledge] means to me is letting the streets know what the politicians is trying to do to them and then letting the politicians know what the streets think of them, if they’re listening.” In the same interview, Ice [...]

Put Your Hands Up: Hip-hop, Incarceration, and The Fate of the Black Male pt 2

on March 11, 2016March 24, 2016 By cue4christ

Part 2: Interestingly, there has been another movement, the Hip-hop movement, transpiring in urban environments, especially amongst African American males. Hip-hop’s music has always been used to represent a counter-cultural movement. However, the ways in which Hip-hop has accomplished this has shifted since it has become more commodified. In the 1980’s and 90’s Hip-hop was [...]