ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that somewhat systematically how hip-hop is Whiteheadian process thought in its construction of ethnicity as a non/difference in such a way that uses reciprocal relationality to theoretically eliminate race as a Logic of the One, unable to persist in a culture founded and maintained upon holistic flux. It looks at underground hip-hop’s construing of multiplicity in ethnicity and its creation of postethnic identity. More clearly, Whitehead, unlike Spinoza, wants to assert an interconnectivity between actual entities in ways that the modal philosophy makes unavailable to us, namely the sort of interconnectivity that can metaphysically trace the origin of one actual entity to another actual entity. Massumi illuminates that when Whitehead talks about the object, he is referring to a datum in the status that is prehended by a subsequent occasion that we refer to as the subject. Hip-hop has always maintained a multiplicity of artists and enthusiasts.
