Hip Hop for Soul Survival There’s no secret that Hip Hop has both a direct and underscored ability to contest issues of socio-political, pedagogical, and ethnic differences. Building upon the classic 4 Principles of Hip Hop (cut/mix, rupture/flow, sermonizing, layering) this intersectional discourse, as a cultural agent, has secured itself firmly within the core dialectics for academics and Hip Hop Headz alike. Early Hip Hop scholars who were equally invested in other areas of epistemological discourse used Hip Hop’s agency... Read more