The Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA contends that Hip-Hop is not just a genre of music but also a complex system of ideas values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not limited to song, poetry, film and fashion (quote). ... Since so much of black culture is intertwined in hip-hop, both old and new representations alike, it is an important source of pride, esteem and escape for the black community. ... Hip-hop has always been committed to the others as Toni Morrison declares, " what unifies hip-hop...

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