Hip Hop and critical theory

[Kevin D. Haggerty]

Hip Hop as the opiate of the masses?

Kevin D. Haggerty
 
> Hip-hop is just another pseudo-activity in this pseudo-reality. It's
> counter-productive, just like popular sixties culture (excluding the
> universities) was. John Lennon could write and sing:
>      Keep you doped up with religion and sex and TV
>      And you think you're so clever and classless and free
>      But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
>      A working class hero is something to be
> as much as he liked. The pseudo-activity of listening to his and other
> "protest music" had a strong narcotizing effect, creating the most
> neo-conservitive generation since Hoover.
>               Keeping it short,  David Wachtfogel