Intellectual Discussion of the Day

If you and your coworkers have some free time today and need a topic of provocative discussion, here is a potential subject to discuss – The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop: Power Moves.

Chuck D of Public Enemy says this of the book:

Now in the time where corporations have extracted the economic DNA of American hip-hop to fuel their bottom line with the lowest common denominator, Halifu Osumare’s reach into the global importance of the genre is a much needed cultural reclamation. With the power of rap music as a new world language, hip-hop’s style and substance is an explosive supplement to the new millennium that is currently lacking knowledge on world cultural and social history, as well as geography.

Go ahead, discuss.