It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post Hip Hop Generation - Hardcover

"An empowering book that moves you to action and to question status quo America. Reading It's Bigger Than Hip Hop" is motoring through a new generation of America with one of its best storytellers." - Ari Bloomekatz, "Los Angeles Times" """M.K. Asante, Jr. combines drive, skill and a commitment that buoys us all. The hip hop community should feel extremely blessed to have those qualities attached to its forward movement." - Chuck D "" "M.K. Asante, Jr. is a rare, remarkable talent that brings to mind the great artists of the Harlem Renaissance." - "Philadelphia Inquirer" "An empowering book that moves you to action and to question status quo America. Reading It's Bigger Than Hip Hop" is motoring through a new generation of America with one of its best storytellers."- Ari Bloomekatz, "Los Angeles Times" """M.K. Asante, Jr. combines drive, skill and a commitment that buoys us all. The hip hop community should feel extremely blessed to have those qualities attached to its forward movement." - Chuck D "" "M.K. Asante, Jr. is a rare, remarkable talent that brings to mind the great artists of the Harlem Renaissance." - "Philadelphia Inquirer"

Post hip hop n: 1. a period of great transition for a new generation of youth searching for deeper understanding of themselves in a context outside of the hip-hop monopoly 2. An assertion that encapsulates this generation's broad range of abilities and ideas and incorporates recent social advances (i.e., the women's movement, gay rights) that hip hop has refused to acknowledge or respect.Post hip hop is not about the death of rap, but the birth of a new movement propelled by a paradigm shift often felt in the crowded spoken-word joints in North Philadelphia, the krump-dance dance-offs in Compton, and on a tattered stoop of Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. "It's Bigger Than Hip Hop" details how hip hop has changed and how this generation of youth is giving birth to a new movement.