Essays that explore the connections between time representation and identity within hip-hop
culture. This book edited by Roy Christopher is a moment. It is the deconstructed sample the
researched lyrical metaphors the aha moment on the way to hip-hop enlightenment. Hip-hop
permeates our world and yet it is continually misunderstood. Hip-hop's intersections with
Afrofuturism and science fiction provide fascinating touchpoints that enable us to see our
todays and tomorrows. This book can be for the curious a window into a hip-hop-infused Alter
Destiny--a journey whose spaceship you embarked on some time ago. Are you engaging this work
from the gaze of the future? Are you the data thief sailing into the past to U-turn to the now?
Or are you the unborn child prepping to build the next universe? No you're the superhero.
Enjoy the journey.--from the introduction by Ytasha L. Womack Through essays by some of
hip-hop's most interesting thinkers theorists journalists writers emcees and DJs Boogie
Down Predictions embarks on a quest to understand the connections between time representation
and identity within hip-hop culture and what that means for the culture at large. Introduced by
Ytasha L. Womack author of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture this
book explores these temporalities possible pasts and further futures from a diverse
multilayered interdisciplinary perspective.
