Man, via Matt, John McWhorter might want to think this one through a bit better:
Please. One can take a good dose of Talib Kweli, Common, Mos Def and Kanye "Bush doesn't care about black people" West and still see nothing that resembles any kind of "message" that people truly committed to forging change would recognize.
Huh. Interesting point in his discourse on what hip-hop, even its better elements, really stands for. Unfortunately, Mos Def, in Fear Not Of Man, both refuted his message and the premise that hip-hop can be defined with perfect clarity:
