Hayes' essay discussed how Hip hop has "emerged as an identifiable music form, it has been adopted—and adapted—by youth in communities around the world as a means to reflect the specificities of their localities." Also mentioned in the essay is the idea of the artists heritage and locality playing a role in identifying with the music and its historical background.
It was interesting to see that the culture of the kids in Scottsville view their interest in rap music as a portal so to speak out of their homogeneous world and into the world of the artist. The artists world is filled with "crime and poverty," all the things that they would not normally see or hear about in Scottsville, which intrigues them and makes them want to keep listening and read deeper into the hip hop/rap scene.
Through his studies Hayes proves how the hip hop/rap culture has spread among the nation and has made for many new fans, but within these fans he points out that majority of them do not know the real history behind the events that are discussed in the music or the true background of the artists or listeners (LA area rappers and community vs. southern rappers).
Discussion Question: Hayes discusses the peculiarity in the fact that white teens and people around that age took great interest in black hip hop artists music. These rappers then ran with this idea by creating music feeding off of their white fans. By doing this do you believe this is how Hip Hop fist started to become mainstream? And would you even consider this heading towards mainstream or no?
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