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“Yeah, it’s a ghetto, boo-yee. But we call it home (or at least we do until after the revolv-olution).”

“New York rapped and America listened. Now Amer­ica is rhyming back.”

“Rap is about using fighting words, in­stead of fighting. Instead of saying ‘Let’s fight,’ people say, ‘Let’s battle.’ I bet you rap has saved a lot of lives.”

A mystery decoded, a legal field just begun. What is the common bond between Grand Wizard Theodore, Blastmaster, KRSOne, and Stanley Platzer? An historical critical megamix.

“Hiphop is the most modern example, after capoeira and basketball, of African culture’s bent towards aesthetic com­bat — what the graffiti movement itself long ago defined as ‘style wars.’ ”