Reiland Rabaka, The Hip Hop Movement: From R&B and the Civil Rights Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Generation (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013). Reiland Rabaka, Hip Hop’s Amnesia: From Blues and ...

By 1984, hip-hop had evolved from its grassroots beginnings in the Bronx into a cultural movement on the cusp of mainstream recognition. Run-DMC’s self-titled debut album released that year introduced ...