What is Hip-Hop and how does this form act as an instrument of cultural and political representation?

QTP: (Select a Minimum of two (2) questions)
1. What is Hip-Hop and how does this form act as an instrument of cultural and
political representation?
2. How do Hip-Hop artists position the complexities/aspects of community, the folks
who inhabit the community, and represent their experiences and issues in the
larger society?

3. Discuss representations of western culture, and deconstruct what it means to be a
part of and/or outside of the American mainstream culture as expressed in art,
essays, Hip-Hop music, and culture.

4. What is the significance of the repetition and the “story of the rhyme” in HipHop?”
5. How are gender & sexuality politics expressed in the music?