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• An (i)witness say he still had the mike in his hand / Randall Horton (1961) — Turning the tables Wednesday poem / Joel Dias-Porter aka DJ Renegade (1962) — An excerpt from Crank shaped notes / Thomas Sayers Ellis (1963) — Mascot Crack house Seventy-first & King Drive / Quraysh Ali Lansana (1964) — Duck, duck, redux Post-white / Evie Shockley (1965) — Everything you wanted to know about hip hop but were afraid to be hipped for fear of being hopped The keepin’ it real awards / Tony Medina (1966) — Shit to write about Word to everything I love Writing about what you know / Willie Perdomo (1967) — Agate / Mario (1967) — Honorific or black boy to black boy Fast — how I knew In defense of the code-switch or why you talk like that or why you gotta always be cussing / Roger Bonair-Agard (1968) — Shine (for Joe Bataan) All night / Lynne Procope (1969) — B-boy infinitives Kundiman ending on a theme from t la rock A note to Thomas Alva Ode to the cee-lo players / Patrick Rosal (1969) — Untitled / Tracie Morris — America’s pastime / Jason Carney (1970) — Who you callin’ a jynx? (after mista popo) Damn right it’s betta than yours Gamin’ gabby — / LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (1970) — Hood / Mitchell L.H. Douglas (1970) — Manifesto, or ars poetica #2 Preface to a twenty volume homicide note / Krista Franklin (1970) — Beat boxing Robot music / Adrian Matejka (1971) — mic check, 1-2 / Jessica Care Moore (1971) — Ode to the crossfader 1989 Renegades of funk / John Murillo (1971) — Stitches Pull down the earth This is a test / Francine J. Harris (1972) — How to get over (senior to freshman) how to get over (for my niggas) how to get over (for Kanye) / T’ai Freedom Ford (1973) — Break (rebirth) Break (sister) Break (embargo) / Suheir Hammad (1973) — The world tells how the world ends Object / Marty McConnell (1973) — Bronx bombers What I saw was not your funeral At my best / John Rodriguez (1973-2013) — Paper bag poems Global warming blues Sunday Po
• This is the first anthology of poems by and for the hip-hop generation … It includes more than four decades of poets and covers the birth to the now of hip-hop culture and music and style –Page xv.

Subjects:

• Hip-hop — Influence — Poetry.
• American poetry — 20th century.
• American poetry — 21st century.
• American poetry — African American authors.
• 1900 – 2099 fast
• Poetry. fast (OCoLC)fst01423828
• Poetry. lcgft

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