What Is Hip-Hop?

What do you think of when you hear the name "Hip-hop"? Do you think of loud and annoying music pouring out of the souped-up Bose sound system in the latest and largest SUV? Do think of incomprehensible lyrics slapped haphazardly over a canvas of scantily-clad, oversexed women and stacks of money, drugs, and a variety of firearms? Is it possible that you think of backwards baseball caps, obscenely oversized jerseys, and gravity defying baggy jeans? If you are thinking about these things, then you are not thinking about "Hip-hop". …