Status Updates From Dead Precedents: How Hip-Ho...

"When their future is outlawed, the outlaws become the future."

Slow going. Too many great references to books/music

“The body is the site of anxiety, not just of one’s self-image but of its legality. A system, a person of power, an enemy cannot impose their law or hatred on someone with no body. Racism precedes race, and race is of the body.”

"This is our story now, a storm blowing us backwards into the future, where revisions gone by and visions yet to come become part of the same process, where slave narratives and science-fiction stories find common ground in their conflicting histories and spin off into new futures."

"Our media is so saturated with allusions that we scarcely think about them. A viewing of any single episode of popular television shows, seeing any big movie, or listening to any hit song yields references to any number of past cultural artifacts."

«In The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick defines “historicity” as “when a thing has history in it.” The many ALLUSIONS woven together through samples and rhymes give HIP-HOP a historicity than many other musical genres maintain in sound but not as much in their lyrics.»