ABSTRACT
This chapter explains about the aspects of global hip hop culture, London's post-hip hop milieu. It offers an ethnographic account of its cultural politics, an inquiry into the kinds of constructs, modes of reflexivity, and normative claims enacted at the various sites of its core activity: outreach, activism, education, spoken-word poetry, and theatre. The chapter examines an ethnographic fieldwork that is different, sometimes incompatible versions of hip hop versus rap discourse are being mobilised to redeem a 'conscious' hip hop culture from its various deformations and misappropriations. In his 2005 book, Hip Hop Decoded, Black Dot speaks of how the same white/grey 'evil ones' who were jealous of ancient Egypt's achievements, and had therefore set out to steal and divert its civilisation, introduced gangsta rap much later in 1989 in a bid to destroy 'real' hip hop.
