Hip Hop 2.0

Summary: In this chapter of Learning Race & Ethnicity, the author describes many things about hip hop. She first explains about a website guerillafunk.com. This is a music label site used for listening to music, getting more music, and something else unexpected. This unexpected link goes to a page about global politics, hip hop culture, and learning. There are many more of these sites. People use them all the time to talk about what is going on in the world and how it relates to hip hip. Artists like Kanye West and Mos Def  even include this events in their songs; they are considered the “politically conscious artists”. Basically, the chapter goes on to explain how hip hop culture is changing to relate to political events, turning controversial.

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