Homeland And Hip Hop by Immortal Technique
To think about the origins of hip hop in this culture and also about homeland security is to see that there are at the very least two worlds in America.
One of the well-to-do and the struggling.
For if ever there was the absence of homeland security it is seen in the gritty roots of hip hop.
For the music arises from a generation that feels with some justice that they have been betrayed by those who came before them.
That they are at best tolerated in schools, feared on the streets, and almost inevitably destined for the hell holes of prison.
They grew up hungry, hated and unloved.
And this is the psychic fuel that seems to generate the anger that seems endemic in much of the music and poetry.
One senses very little hope above the personal goals of wealth and the climb above the pit of poverty.
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