Boogie Down Predictions

Essays that explore the connections between time representation and identity within hip-hop culture.. This book edited by Roy Christopher is a moment. It is the deconstructed sample the researched lyrical metaphors the aha moment on the way to hip-hop enlightenment. Hip-hop permeates our world and yet it is continually misunderstood. Hip-hop''s intersections with Afrofuturism and science fiction provide fascinating touchpoints that enable us to see our todays and tomorrows. This book can be for the curious a window into a hip-hop-infused Alter Destiny--a journey whose spaceship you embarked on some time ago. Are you engaging this work from the gaze of the future? Are you the data thief sailing into the past to U-turn to the now? Or are you the unborn child prepping to build the next universe? No you''re the superhero. Enjoy the journey.--from the introduction by Ytasha L. Womack. Through essays by some of hip-hop''s most interesting thinkers theorists journalists writers emcees and DJs Boogie Down Predictions embarks on a quest to understand the connections between time representation and identity within hip-hop culture and what that means for the culture at large. Introduced by Ytasha L. Womack author of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture this book explores these temporalities possible pasts and further futures from a diverse multilayered interdisciplinary perspective.