196  “Because the hip-hop generation, still”: Brian McCollum, “Q&A with Mayor 

Kilpatrick on Detroit’s Music Legacy,” 

Detroit Free Press, May 21, 2004.

196 “I 

think it says something on the surface”: Alexandra Marks, “Hip Hop Mayor 

Aims  to Rev Motor City Engine,” 

Christian Science Monitor, August 7, 2002.

196 “[Kilpatrick] does not hide from the fact”: Nichols, interview.
197  “ ‘Today,’ he told the citywide television”: Kwame Kilpatrick Inauguration Speech, 

http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/mayor/speeches_inaug.htm, January 4, 2002.

197  “the program will work with young people”: Ibid.
198  “Yes, we want your financial resources”: Ibid.
198  “Communities that are not involved with”: Ibid.
198  “engage our young people in new technology”: Ibid.
198  “everyone is allowed to participate in the programs”: Ibid.
199  “In choosing Kilpatrick over the 70-year-old Hill”: editorial: “Challenges for 

Detroit’s Next Mayor,” 

Detroit News, November 7, 2001.

200  “I issue an open warning to all dope pushers”: “Coleman A. Young, 79, Mayor of 

Detroit and Political Symbol for Blacks, Is Dead,”

New York Times, November 30, 

1997.

200  “Hit Eight Mile Road. And I don’t”: Ibid.
201  “I don’t dispute the gravity of Detroit’s”: Young (1994). 
202  “In 2000, black students represented ninety percent of the Detroit public 

school system’s student population”: Ron French, Brad Heath, and Christine 
MacDonald, “Metro Classrooms Remain Separate, Often Unequal.” 

Detroit News,

May 16, 2004.

Chapter Eight: “We Love Hip Hop, 
But Does Hip Hop Love Us?”

207  “The house of hip hop”: Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Caught on Tape,” 

The Village Voice,

November 21, 2003.

207  “Upscale and urban,” is how Burgos described”: “Redman Gets Funky on Cover 

of an Adult Entertainment Magazine,” June 8, 2004, http://www.hiphop-elements
.com/article/read/4/6261/1/.

207  “Fish ‘N’ Grits is able to bring it to you”: Ibid.
208  “The rise of hip hop porn was stimulated by”: Martin Edlund, “Hip-Hop’s 

Crossover to the Adult Aisle,” 

New York Times, March 7, 2004, Section 2; 

Column 1; Arts and Leisure Desk; p. 1.

209  “When I grew up in the 80’s in Paris”: Stuart Elliot, “Stars of Pornographic Films 

Are Modeling in a Campaign for Pony, the Shoe Company,” 

New York Times,

February 24, 2003, Section C; Column 1; Business/Financial Desk;p. 9.

209  “the rise of the amazing pornosphere,” McNair, p. 37.
209  “I’ve been selling sex forever from a label’s”: Carl Chery, “Player Watch 2004: 

Camille Burgos Redefines the ‘Nasty Girl’ w/Fish & Grits,” 

Daily Hip-Hop News,

http://www.sohh.com/thewire/read.php?contentID=5905, June 2, 2004.

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