Hip Hop is now: an evolving youth culture.

Reclaiming Children and Youth, January, 2007 by Taylor, Carl; Taylor, Virgil

Emerging from Rap music, Hip Hop has become a lifestyle to many modern youth around the world. Embodying both creativity and controversy, Hip Hop mirrors the values, violence, and hypocrisy of modern culture. The authors dispel some of the simplistic views that surround this evolving youth movement embraced by millions of young people who are struggling to find meaning in communities that too often lack hope and pathways to purpose.

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Recently during a focus group interaction, a young college woman was asked what Hip Hop was. This young neatly dressed, articulate student thought for a moment before responding in a way that was very matter of fact. "Hip Hop is now; it's in your face, and it's real and honest." When asked what separated...

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