Gangster Rap and Its Social Cost: Exploiting Hip Hop and Using Racial Stereotypes to Entertain America
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

ix

Chapter 1: Introduction

1

Chapter 2: What is Hip Hop?

17

Chapter 3: Rap and Commercial Success

47

Chapter 4: The Rap Business and Its Audiences

75

Chapter 5: Gangster Rap as the New Minstrel Show

97

Chapter 6: Authenticity and Representation

121

Chapter 7: Gangster Rap’s Use of the N-Word

149

Chapter 8: Gangster Rap’s Effects on Civil Society

171

Chapter 9: The Gangster Rap Psychology and Its Impacts

199

Chapter 10: Gangster Rap’s Impact on Audiences

225

Chapter 11: Solutions

253

Chapter 12: Conclusion

277

References

291

Index

309