As hip-hop grows ever more popular, it becomes squeezed in the uneasy space between commercial and economic globalization from above and borderless, cultural grassroots globalization from below. Commercial rap made in the United States—with its ethic of “get rich or die tryin’”—is displacing local rappers and musicians on the radio and television airwaves in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and South America, while serving as the soundtrack for aggressive, youth-oriented consumer goods marketing.
Jeff Chang (Autor des Buchs Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop) schreibt in Foreign Policy über die Globalisierung und Kommerzialisierung des HipHop (via Brijit)
