The
>conclusion I've come to is
>that, even though its roots
>are in the ghettos of
>urban Black America, hip hop
>is a flexible apparatus that
>can be used in many
>ways to express and make
>art.

people that 'use' hip hop for other purposes tend to discredit the origins

i've seen plenty of suburban white kids that i used to go to hs with appropriate certian aspects and compltely remove them from the origin, and turn around and claim it for their own

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