Greg TateThinkers

Hip hop embraces the pleasures of the pimping principle.

Hip hop is digital chips on the shoulders of African lips.

Hip hop is like capitalism in that it has no morals, no conscience, and no ecological concern for the avenged earth or the scavenged American minds it will wreck in its pursuit of new markets.

Hip hop is the Black aesthetic byproduct of the American dream machine, or culture of consumption, commodification, and subliminal seduction.

Hip hop is the first musical movement in history where Black people pimped themselves before the white boy did.

Hip hop is the perverse logic of capitalism pursued by an art form.

Hip hop is the plunder from down under.

Hip hop is what happened when the Black community became the Bermuda Triangle and lost track of itself on the radar screen of Reaganomics.