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If there was one figure who had a similar impact for Hip-Hop, it is Tricia Rose, whose groundbreaking book Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America which was published in 1994.

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Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast” only haphazardly brings the artist and his work to life. The book’s clinical prose, constant digressions, and stilted storytelling undermine Fernando’s attempt at a ...

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