ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how efforts by some hip hop intellectuals to reveal the true, hidden face of the culturally familiar, in the cause of establishing an alternative public sphere founded on racial kinship, proceeds via this kind of epistemic transgression. It parses Chandler and Khonsu's public tocsins on the psychobiological power of music and lyrics to affect the consciousness and bodily integrity of its listeners. The chapter examines a series of statements and presentations that seek to offer proof that the moral and psychological energy and intentions of those who create words and music transmit directly to their audiences via the vibrational frequencies of speech and sound. Hip hop is conceived as the target of conspiracies aimed at black people, one of which is the deployment of rap music as 'a modern cultural weapon' against its youth. During his talk at 'Hip Hop versus Rap', Chandler referred to the findings of an unnamed behavioural researcher.
