It Aint My Fault: Blame It On Hip Hop

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Pg. 6 Letter from the Editor	Pg. 42 The Ellis Report: The Rap on Obama Eitan Prince
Pg. 10 Hip-Hop’s Global Soundscape: Boom Bap Babylon or Babylon’s Boom Bap? Omar El-Khairy	Pg. 46 Book Review: Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop -- and Why It Matters. Tricia Rose Suad Abdul Khabeer
Pg. 20 Interview With a Hip-Hop Ambassador WBL Staff	Pg. 50 Interview With Tricia Rose Dr. Jared Ball
Pg. 22 Book Review: Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop Subversion. Adam Haupt Dr. Jared Ball	Pg. 54 Bumrush the Boards Mazi Mutafa and Lester Wallace
Pg. 26 Interview With David Banner WBL Staff	Pg. 56 Featured Poet: Kyle G. Darga
Pg. 30 The Modern Massive Resistance: Hip-Hop Dress and the Policing of Race, Space and Place in Charlottesville, Virginia Nina Otchere-Oduro	Pg. 62 Art Under Pressure: American Graffiti: The Tradition of Illegal Public Name Writing in the United States Cory L. Stowers
Pg. 34 Interview With Brandon Brice of the Hip Hop Republicans WBL Staff	Pg. 70 The Street Art Plague: How Graffiti Is Framed by the Press Tatyana Varshavsky
Pg. 38 Interview With Kevin Powell WBL Staff	Pg. 78 Featured Artist: Interview With Justin Bua Dana Byrd