Dead Precedents

Dead PrecedentsBy: Roy Christopher The story of how hip hop created, and came to dominate, the twenty first century. In Dead Precedents, Roy Christopher traces the story of how hip hop invented the twenty first century. Emerging alongside cyberpunk in the 1980s, the hallmarks of hip hop allusion, self reference, the use of new technologies, sampling, the cutting and splicing of language and sound would come to define the culture of the new millennium. Taking in the

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