"The language of hop-hop, like the “languages” of the past, is the spontaneous expression of words. Artists write what they feel. They speak what they live and know. There is humor, deceit and anguish that exposes and glamorizes urban madness that turns the real and ugly into poetry, while resonating an emotional intensity that is matched only by the best in literary affairs."

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