A review by nuhafariha
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang

3.0

I wanted to like this book a lot more than I think I did. It's a great contextualization for hip hop, because music rarely exists without being impacted and impacting the society it's created in and Chang draws really interesting, thoughtful links between anti-apartheid movements, globalization, anti communism interference by the US government and student activism and relates it all to hip hop. I just wish that he had taken time to talk more about feminism in hip hop (how can Lauryn Hill or Missy Elliot only get a sentence or two???) and about Southern hip hop instead of focusing solely on the East/West divide.