Summary Of Hip Music By Orejuela

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Finally, Orejuela’s book also discusses the dimension of hip hop that is very deep. Orejuela believes that hip hop cannot be looked at superficially. For instance, “the more we treated hip hop with color-blind lenses and the more homogenized the sound became, the more difficult it was to discuss what hip hop was, is, and is yet to be” states Orejuela (xi). In fact, Orejuela went on to later describe hip hop in detail. He even gave a definition as to what hip hop entails. According to Orejuela, “Hip hop includes four related art forms – Djing, MCing, breaking (b-boying), and graffiti – that are the product of a unifying ideology” (2). Therefore, one can understand that there is more to hip hop than meets the eye and Orejuela felt passionately