Hip Hop Culture

The book Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America that was written by Tricia Rose was very interesting. Tricia Rose is a writer who clearly knows her stuff. She has her PHD in African American studies and specializes in the twentieth century popular culture, politics, and social issues. I have only read the first three pages of her book and I did not want to put it down. The author introduces the book with a verse from the well known hip hop group Public Enemy’s song to familiarize the audience with the hip hop culture. Her great details on what hip hop consists of makes one not doubt her on even writing this book. I was able to tell that she knew what she was talking about because it seemed like she did some extensive research and used that to state her claim. Tricia is not really putting rap music down so far in the pages that I have read but she basically talks about how this type of music is made by rapping on the topic of social, cultural, and political issues. She talked about how most rappers are given props when they have actually experienced what they are rapping about. Some of the rappers that she mentioned I found out that the Tricia have a lot of knowledge on the rap industry and how it relates in the black culture.