To Live and Defy in LA
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- 13 Lesestunden
In its early days, rap was understood as the poetry of the inner city, which usually meant New York. Few expected anything as hard-edged as gangsta rap to emerge from Los Angeles, home of surf and sun. Felicia Viator tells the story of LA's self-styled ghetto reporters, whose music forced America to see an urban crisis it preferred to ignore.
