... throughout class history, the underside of culture is blood, torture, death, and terror" ( Cited in Modernism to Postmodernism,2003, pg 566-567 ). Hip hop as a sub-culture is fascinating as it is mostly consumed in a totally different environment from that in which it is produced. White suburban boy's ... repertoire available to us, rather than our culture being shaped by us, he see's that we are shaped by culture. When listening to hip-hop, one immediately notices that it is a form of articulating identity and self-assertion. The rap artists frequently call attention to their origins, ....

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