The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines.

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Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.

— Michael Eric Dyson

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Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

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— Michael Jordan

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Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

— Michael Eric Dyson

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That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

— Talib Kweli

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