![]() ![]() KITWANA: A wangsta is a term that-I mean, it was popularized by 50 Cent. It's titled "Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wangstas, Wiggers, Wannabes and the New Reality of Race In America." Now what are wangstas, wiggers and wanna-bes? ![]() This book kind of tries to take the conversation a little bit further to talk about the vast majority of Americans that hip-hop is influencing, including young white Americans.ĬHIDEYA: So let's talk about your new book. I think it's important that African-Americans take claim for what they create, and so that's what I was trying to do in that book. I don't have a problem with it, but some people did. There was a lot of criticism from people who are in the hip-hop that I defined in "The Hip Hop Generation" as African-American. I wanted to begin with "The Hip Hop Generation" as a book about young African Americans born after the civil rights movement. Now you're back to tell us it's not just a black thing? ![]() He's back with his latest book, "Why White Kids Love Hip Hop."ĬHIDEYA: So in your first book, "The Hip Hop Generation," you defined a group of African Americans born between 19. NPR's Farai Chideya talks with one writer who's always taken hip-hop seriously.īakari Kitwana is author of "The Hip Hop Generation" and former executive editor of The Source, a magazine that was created to cover hip-hop and its culture. Remember when mainstream music critics suggested that hip-hop would be a passing fad? Well, back in the day, a few cultural observers understood that hip-hop would become the dominant form of expression for young people of every color. ![]()
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