Autores:
  • Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

    "A new beginning for the word" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.