liberal sages are preoccupied with “contextualizing” this cultural rot. Cornel West describes rap as “primarily the musical expression of the paradoxical cry of desperation and celebration of the black underclass and poor working class, a cry that openly acknowledges and confronts the wave of personal coldheartedness, criminal cruelty and existential hopelessness in the black ghettos.”16 Michael Eric Dyson, the sociologist and television commentator who credits rappers with “refining the art of oral communication,” says that “before we discard the genre, we should understand that gangsta rap
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