The black artists and writers started to be creative and reflect from their culture into their work. ... A lot of his writing was about the tradition and culture in African life. ... During the Harlem Renaissance past writing or writing done about a persons history became popular because it was real. ... Western influence could have value on writing but only where it is needed. ... Black literature has a different feeling than any other writing. ...

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The Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA contends that Hip-Hop is not just a genre of music but also a complex system of ideas values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not limited to song, poetry, film and fashion (quote). ...

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