Hip- Hop and Culture
Professor Ryan
Analysis
Chapter 7: The World is Ours: Survival and Transformation of Bronx Style
In Chapter 7: The World is Ours: Survival and Transformation of Bronx Style of the book titled "Hip- Hop: New Generation" by author Jeffery Chang; discusses how B- Boying/ B- Girling and Graffiti crews began to fade- out in the late 70's and early 80's and were exchanged for gangs, prisons were built, which both gangs and prison life lead to death. He also went into details of what came with this transformation/transition for Bronx, New York in this time period of the Hip- Hop culture, which wasn't good for the inner city in some aspect (pp. 127).
Latter in the chapter Chang discusses what the new decade had brought for the Bronx and the United States, which was commerical success of making Hip- Hop worldwide of the passing of tapes or bootleg cassettes. These "live bootleg cassette tapes of Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaata, Grand Master Flash and Furious 5, L Brothers, the Cold Crush, the Brothers and others were freestyle of OJ Cabs that took folks across the city. The tapes were soon, passed hand to hand in the African Americans and Hispanic neighborhoods of Brooklyn, the Lower East Side, Queens and Long Island' s black belt"(pp. 127, 131, 133).
In addition to this chapter, Chang briefly spoke about "The Distribution" which talks about the drug trade (pp. 127- 129), "The Endrun" and how it involved NYCPD poising as neighborhood drug dealers; who pinned drug gangs against one another and watch them rat/tell on one another or even wrost kill one another for the satisfactory of ending the corruption and existence of drug wars (pp. 129- 134).
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