HipHopHysteria: The 411 On All Things Hip-Hop

Examples:

Ice-T, Afrika Bambaataa, Melle Mel Headline UK Hip-Hop Summit - (AllHipHop.com) Aren't there any British rappers, ANY AT ALL, who can run this?

"We've rationalized that the tragic conditions lived by the likes of Biggie and Pac somehow grants them a free pass into heaven." - Reggie Legend

Does it matter if a gangsta rap crew is white? Is it important to us that ANY rapper live the life that he raps about?

"You're at a disadvantage being a white rapper." - Jonathan Rotem, on Kevin Federline. We've heard his raps. Is his race the reason he's not blowing up?

HipHopEMass - A program being used in churches that uses rap to spread the gospel. Is this a good use of the vernacular or the co-opting of a hip-hop culture?

Now, there's efforts to legitimate hip-hop as a cultural form. - Loren Kajikawa, Hip Hop scholar at UCLA. Was it illegitimate before white America studied it?