My hip-hop love affair: 'it's art, you fool' | John Sutherland

My opponent in a hip-hop debate says it glorifies prison culture, but listen to the words – rappers are the poets of our timeTonight I am taking part in a debate about the morality of hip-hop, billed as the first of its kind. The case against the genre, that it has recently "gone to the bad" will be put by Jason Whitlock, a Fox sports commentator. And, yes, it's relevant, he's a (youngish) African American. Whitlock's angry j'accuse is, essentially that hip-hop began as party and club music "t...

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