The Esthetics of Hip-hop and Rap [Multimedia]

Is hip-hop dead?🎤

"Stay far from timid, only make moves when your heart's in it," Christopher Wallace, the Notorious B.I.G., once told us, "and live the phrase 'Sky's the Limit'." Hip-hop and rap music, discussed jointly in this article, have had a far greater and longer-lasting impact than its founders and early listeners could've guessed. Once thought to be a fad, hip-…