five-dollar words

"Rappers are constantly taking dominant discursive fragments and throwing them into relief, destabilizing hegemonic discourses and attempting to legitimate counterhegemonic interpretations."
-- Tricia Rose, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America

pretty good book though, from what i've read for class so far. you go, Ms Rose. plus it's got the Lenny stamp of approval, so it must be good.