Table of Contents:
  • Who we be: introducing the new H.N.I.C
  • No time for fake niggas: hip hop, from private to public
  • Brothas gonna work it out: hip hop's ongoing search for the real
  • Can't knock the hustle: hip hop and the cult of playa hatin'
  • Head nigga in charge: Slick Willie, Slim Shady, and the return of the "white negro"
  • Epilogue: where's the love?