[Popular Culture and Philosophy 16] • Hip-Hop and Philosophy · Rhyme 2 Reason by Darby, Derrick -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Epigraph Popular Culture and Philosophy™ Title Page Dedication Foreword Shout Outs From Rhyme to Reason: This Shit Ain’t Easy Disk 1 - Da Mysteries: God, Love, and Knowledge

1 - Yo! It Ain’t No Mystery: Who Is God?

Godz N the Hood Who Is God? Divine Omnipotence Aquinas’s Solution to the Paradoxes of the Blunt and the Glock Divine Omnipotence and Tupac’s Jailbreak Paradox Ain’t No Mystery

2 - Ain’t (Just) ’bout da Booty: Funky Reflections on Love

3 - “You Perceive with Your Mind”: Knowledge and Perception

Descartes and the Gorillaz on Mental Perception The New Unconscious Strangers to Ourselves Proper Use of the Mind

Disk 2 - What’s Beef? Ruminations on Violence

5 - Rap Aesthetics: Violence and the Art of Keeping It Real

Pragmatism, Rap, and Art Violence and the Art of Keeping It Real Street Violence and Dead Bodies Aesthetic Violence and Consciousness Raising Stop the (Bad) Violence! (Positive) Violence of Self-Discipline

6 - “F**k tha Police [State]”: Rap, Warfare, and the Leviathan

The Police State Capital, Commodities, and Hardcore Communities Resistance Raps

Disk 3 - That’s How I’m Livin’: Authenticity, Blackness, and Sexuality

7 - Does Hip Hop Belong To Me? The Philosophy of Race and Culture

Sidney’s Question—and a Follow-up The Eminem Enigma Hip Hop and Culture First Answer, Intro: Dre’s Dilemma First Answer, Continued: It’s a Black Thing . . . Second Answer: The Decline and Fall of Hip Hop No Love (for Hip Hop), No problem

8 - Queen Bees and Big Pimps: Sex and Sexuality in Hip Hop

9 - Grown Folks’ Business: The Problem of Maturity in Hip Hop

So Many Tears: A Fanonian Riff on Hip Hop A Nietzschean Perspective on the Black Aesthetic We Need a (Postmodern) Hip-Hop Revolution Maturity and the Philly Sound The Hunger for More Than Serious Play

Disk 4 - Word Up! Language, Meaning, and Ethics

10 - Knowwhatumsayin’? How Hip-Hop Lyrics Mean

Thesis: The Lyricist Message Anti-Thesis: The Lyricist Narrative Synthesis: Mixin’ Messages and Narratives Messages from Kelis’s Yard and Lil’ Kim’s Beehive Messages in Context: Slim Shady and Stan the Fan Ja Rule v. 50 Cent: Beefs, Personae, and Meaning Hip-Hop Lyrics: No Black CNN and No Art of Storytelling

11 - Girl Got 99 Problems: Is Hip Hop One?

Hatin’ on Hip Hop? Dangerous Mouths: Causing Harm Wud U Say? Doing Things with Words Not Your Ho, Not Your Freak, and Tired of You Disrespecting Me Check Out Time

12 - “For All My Niggaz and Bitches”: Ethics and Epithets

The Ethics of Using “Bitch” and “Nigger” Chappelle’s “Bitches” and “Niggers” Words that Wound and Mill’s Harm Principle Epithets and the Fear of a Black Planet Final Skit: Paris’s Field Nigga Boogie

Disk 5 - Fight the Power: Political Philosophy’n the Hood

13 - Microphone Commandos: Rap Music and Political Philosophy

The Social Contract Hip-Hop Culture and Human Freedom The Idea of Citizenship “Who Protects Us from You?” The Police and Protection Romanticizing Rap? Post-Civil Rights Music

14 - Halfway Revolution: From That Gangsta Hobbes to Radical Liberals

The Hood and America as a State of Nature An Afrocentric Community Radical Liberals Reality versus Revolution

15 - Criminal-Justice Minded: Retribution, Punishment, and Authority

Punishment as Retribution Doubts about the Justice of Retribution Punishment as Social Control Prison/Ghetto

16 - Gettin’ Dis’d and Gettin’ Paid: Rectifying Injustice

Just Us in Western Philosophy Blowin’ Up the Spot Gettin’ Dis’d Payback Gettin’ Paid Forty Acres and a Mule Even if Ya’ll Got Paid, Ya’ll Wouldn’t Know What to Do With It Not Just a Black Thing

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