But I maintain that we should be willing to takea scholarly look at hip hop for no other reason than it has grabbed global attention and sparked emulation in countless different countries and among varied ethnicities.
So if you and a Firesheep user are in a coffee shop together taking advantage of free wireless and you visit a non-encrypted version of Facebook, the Firesheep user can hop into your account and takea look around.
Takea handful of cultural influences (hip-hop music, professional basketball, Southern cooking and the black church), shake them together, and you still can't begin to approximate my students.