🎧 the misuse of hip hop by corporations to perpetuate narratives about Black culture 🎧 the commodification of Black culture and bodies

The author tackles themes through hip hop and media narratives. I really really related to Medlin's nerdy gamer, hip hop loving vibes. It was lyrical, speculative at times and magical. The format of the book gave it a nice flow. There were so many times I stopped to reread certain parts because the thoughts were so deep. There were parts that kicked me in the chest and made me pay attention. I loved everything about this collection of poems, remixes and meditations. I am not a part song, cuss word or caged bird. You say I'm free, but you still owe me.' I loved everything about this collection of poems, remixes and meditations. It's a love letter to family and self, told to an undeniably energetic beat.more Through storytelling rhymes and vulnerable narratives in conversation with both contemporary Hip-Hop culture - superhuman mutants, video games - and systemic anti-blackness - the death of Darrien Hunt, murdered by police while cosplaying - 808s & Otherworlds pieces together a speculative reality where Blackfolk are simultaneously superhuman and dehumanized. Against the backdrop of the Phoenix suburbs where they were raised, Medlin weaves a tapestry of worlds - as gut-wrenchingly real as young, star-crossed lovers unmythed by segregation, and imaginative as the story of Mer-Africans who 'live deeper than Atlantis or military submarines, deeper than any human, mutant, or cosmic deity can descend,' as narrated by Storm.Ĩ08s & Otherworlds interrogates the effects of media misrepresentation on the performance of Black masculinity. Against the backdrop of the Phoenix suburbs where they were raised, Medlin weaves a tapestry of worlds - as gut-wrenchingly real as young, star-crossed lovers unmythed by segregation, and imaginative as the story of Mer-Africans who 'live deeper than Atlantis or military submarines, deeper 808s & Otherworlds announces a bold and incendiary new voice in Sean Avery Medlin. 808s & Otherworlds announces a bold and incendiary new voice in Sean Avery Medlin.

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