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Abstract
The purpose of this think-piece is to initiate dialogue on how are the hip-hop artists’ messages distinguishable from White slave owners. Conscious hip-hop music focuses on the experiences Blacks and Latinos are faced with such as police brutality, poverty, disease, among others. In contrast, much of unconscious hip-hop music focus on the objectification of women, degradation of Black people, celebration of criminality, among others. Such hip-hop is driven to validate preconceptions about Black people.