"Hip-Hop planet" response

Massimo Sarracino

9/23/14

Professor Young

Engw 1100

“Hip-Hop Planet” Response

James Mcbride starts talking about Hip-Hop music in a negative way. He says he does not like the music and, “It sounded like a broken record.” James says he thought it was the most ridiculous thing he had ever heard. For the next 26 years James high-stepped past all of the hip-hop music he was hearing everywhere he went. He walked past rappers and people playing hip-hop music every day and did his best to block it out and ignore it.

Even though James McBride tried his best to move past this type of music he could not. It was spreading rapidly and everyone was getting into it. “The Bronx is the hallowed holy ground of Hip-Hop, the place where it all began.” says McBride. Hip-Hop is made with a DJ that controls the turntables and an MC (master of ceremonies) who did the rapping. James says, “It is a music that defies definition, yet defines our collective societies in immeasurable ways.” Hip-Hop has brought together all races and nationalities as one group that all have one specific thing in common, the love for Hip-Hop music.

After 26 years of high-stepping past Hip-Hop music, James has embraced the music he had

tried so hard to simply ignore. James says, “To confess a love for a music that, at least in part, 

embraces violence is no easy matter, but then again our national anthem talks about bombs 

bursting in air, and I love that song too.” He is trying to say that he does not agree with everything

that rap music might be saying, but the music comes from his roots and he chooses to embrace 

it.