ASIN: B00DHC8TQK
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 22
"The evolution of rap was shaped largely by the emergence of a particular pessimism. In fact, the history of rap can be written as the story of this Dionysian American Blues Spirit slowly and steadily taking over the burgeoning art form—an art form that began as a light-hearted, boasting, party music before evolving into one of the most pessimistic and profound expressions of the blues."From the early 1980s onward, an ever intensifying pessimism pushed rap towards a confrontation with God. It was a confrontation that manifested itself fully in the mid-1990s when Tupac Shakur performed the definitive gesture of metaphysical rebellion. This was the first direct challenge to God within the genre. Shakur's performance was the final escalation of the blues rebellion, which ended like rebellion so often does in art: with the death of the gods."The Death of God in Rap is the first in a ...
