Hip-Hop and a Generation

Do you agree with Chang that hip-hop has come to be the way an entire generation sees their world? Does that make it more or less, as the caller suggests, “mainstream”?

 I agree with Chang’s theory that hip-hop has come to be the way an entire generation sees their world.  I am not familiar with hip-hop music, since I don’t find it appealing.  What Chang has in the essay “Stakes Is High” seems that the entire generation has turned to hip-hop to express themselves.  The music changes through time, through the lyrics, and what is happening in the world around them.  Musicians express how they feel through their music.  They use style, politics, wars, colors, anger, and the list can keep going on what these musicians use to share their beliefs.  I feel that this is mainstream, because it has an influence on the people that listen to this style of music.  No matter what kind of music you listen to, the musicians are telling a story or expressing their opinion through their music.