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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
Love Haters: Skepticism about Romantic Love You’re All I Need: Love as Completeness and Eternal Unity A Beautiful Reflection: Love as Spiritual Transcendence That’s Where the Drama Begins: Love as Possession The Mysteries of Love Revealed?
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
4 - “Y’all Niggaz Better Recognize”: Hip Hop’s Dialectical Struggle for Recognition
“I Ain’t No Joke”: Rapping and Battling “You’re a Sucker MC”: The Struggle for Recognition Gangsta and Rap’s Struggle for Recognition Hip Hop and “This Makin’ Dollars Shit”
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
Bamboozled: Images from the Idiot Box “Bitches,” “Hos,” and “Housewives”: What’s in a Name? Peepin’, Pimpin’, and Drillin’ the T and A “Suck My D**k”: The Gaze Reversed from Tha Beehive “Big Pimpin’” and Gender Performativity The Possibility of Authenticity: The Life We Choose
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
After . . . Word! Beats & Rhymes! The Crew The Hip-Hop Head Index ALSO FROM OPEN COURT Copyright Page
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