The new H.N.I.C. (head niggas in charge)
Subtitle: the death of civil rights and the reign of hip hop
By: Todd Boyd.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Hip-hop.; African American youth -- Social life and customs.; African American youth -- Social conditions.; African American youth -- Political activity.; African Americans -- Civil rights.; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-; United States -- Race relations.
Description: "The New H.N.I.C., like hip hop itself, attempts to keep it real, and challenges conventional wisdom on a range of issues, from debates over use of the "n world," the comedy of Chris Rock, and the "get money" ethos of hip hop moguls like Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and Russell Simmons, to hip hop's impace on a diverse array of figures from Bill Clinton and Eminem to Jennifer Lopez.".

"Maintaining that Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech is less important today than understanding DMX's It's Dark and Hell is Hot, Boyd argues that Civil Rights as a cultural force is dead, confined to a series of media images frozen in another time. Hip hop, on the other hand, represents the vanguard, and the best way to grasp both our present and future."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-154) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Who We Be: Introducing the New H.N.I.C 1; title: 1 No Time for Fake Niggas: Hip Hop, from Private to Public 24; title: 2 Brothas Gonna Work It Out: Hip Hop's Ongoing Search for the Real 44; title: 3 Can't Knock the Hustle: Hip Hop and the Cult of Playa Hatin' 61; title: 4 Head Nigga in Charge: Slick Willie, Slim Shady, and the Return of the "White Negro" 102; title: Epilogue: Where's the Love? 139.