How Gangsta Rap Changed America

Book Review: “To Live and Defy in LA” — Gangsta Rap and the Creative Politics of Dissent

August 31, 2020
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To Live & Defy in LA sees Gangsta Rap as an important way to understand how systemic racism has worked (and works) in America today.

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