ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains how some kinds of discursive efforts to annex the sacred from the profane in hip hop culture constitute a play of difference between racially and morally articulated poles. The social marginality out of which hip hop originally emerges gives a particular piquancy to its antiphonic battle aesthetic. The book also examines where young people were enjoined to observe and learn from the exemplary legacy of such hip hop pioneers and revolutionaries as Bambaata, KRS1 and Public Enemy. It shows this could shade into hagiography and an occulting of cultural origins to fit a vindicatory Afrocentric narrative. Post-hip hop culture prides itself on being a social movement that conjugates all that is most progressive in hip hop, black power, and art as critical social practice.
