ABSTRACT
KRS-One insists that hip hop culture is predicated not upon a collection of products or modes of fashion but rather upon a way of seeing the world and a manner of self-fashioning out of the detritus of found culture and objects. Hip Hop consists of the so-called four core elements of the culture. Stable irony entails several consequences. Jacques Derrida insists that language depends on oppositions. Ferdinand de Saussure famously claimed: In language there are only differences without positive terms. Deconstruction seeks out the irreconcilable differences that occur within a given concepts. The 1970s was a remarkable decade for the recording industry and for album culture. By the time Hip Hop embraced its golden age, it had largely eschewed the participatory, critical aesthetics of Attalian composition and became reified in a host of products, returning to repetition, the stockpiling of time, the codification of pleasure.
