Roc the Mic Right : The Language of Hip Hop Culture (Hardcover)

Shout outs 1 “The streetz iz a mutha”: The street and the formation of a Hip Hop Linguistics (HHLx) 2 Verbal Mujahidin in the Transglobal Hip Hop Umma: Islam, discursive struggle, and the weapons of mass culture 3 “Talkin Black in this White Man’s World”: Linguistic supremacy, linguistic equanimity, and the politics of language 4 “Bring it to the cypher”: Hip Hop Nation Language 5 Spittin the Code of the Streets: The strategic construction of a street-conscious identity 6 “Every syllable of mine is an umbilical cord through time”: Toward an analytical schema of Hip Hop poetics 7 “I’m Pharoahe when I’m on stage; I’m Troy when I’m home in Queens”: An interview with Pharoahe Monch