"What's the beef?" : hip hop and its critics
"How real is this?" : prisons, iPods, pimps, and the search for authentic homes
This dark diction has become America's addiction" : language, diaspora, and hip hop's bling economy
"It's trendy to be the conscious MC" : culture, rhetoric, crack, and the politics of rap
"Cover your eyes as I describe a scene so violent" : violence, machismo, sexism, and homophobia
"Nappy-head ho's, worse than bitch niggaz" : Don Imus, the crisis of patriarchy, and the death and rebirth of hip hop.