244–46.

See also specific colleges

and universities

Hill, Gil, 191, 199
Hill, Lauryn, 62, 71–73, 220–21
Hilton Enterprises, 209
hip hop: beginning of, 9–29, 58; and

black music establishment, 78–79,
82–83; fashion design for, 67–71, 76–
77; hypermasculine style of, 72; and
Internet, 112–14, 120–21, 127–34,
139–40; magazines covering, 55–61,
207–10, 220; and pornography, 207–
11, 216–19; significance of, 5–7, 22,
180–81, 254–56; and street credibility
and authenticity, 2–4, 25, 103, 126;
women in, 71–73; and youth revolu-
tion, 148–49.

See also commercialism

and hip hop; intellectuals of hip hop;
political/social activism and hip hop;
and specific musicians

Hiphop Archive (Harvard University),

233–34, 244

hip-hop lit, 235–39
Hip Hop Summit Action Network

(HSAN), 148, 152–58, 160–62, 249

Hip-Hop Team Vote, 154
Hirschberg, Lynn, 47
HIV/AIDS, 223–25
Horner, Blair, 147
Hot 97 (radio station), 50
House of Pain, 40
Houston, Whitney, 83
Houston Hip Hop Summit (2004), 155–56
Houston radio station, 80
HSAN (Hip Hop Summit Action Net-

work), 148, 152–58, 160–62, 249

Hustler, 208
Hyperion Books, 237–38

Iceberg Slim, 238
Ice Cube, 41, 98, 163
Ice-T, 45–46, 163
indie labels distributors, 40–42

Infinite, 99–100
Infinity Broadcasting, 137
Inside Radio, 81
intellectuals of hip hop: criticisms of,

246–47; dissertations on hip hop, 244;
fiction written by, 235–39; in higher
education, 244–46, 254; Hiphop
Archive (Harvard University), 233–34,
244; KRS-One as, 239–43; role of,
247–48; turntablism at Berklee College
of Music, 229–33, 234, 244

Internet: and Atomic Pop, 128–30; and

Chuck D, 112–14, 120–21, 127–34;
Clemente’s challenge to Simmons on,
157–58; democratic virtues of, 130; and
digital divide, 131–32; and dot.com
companies, 165; downloadable music
from, 88–89, 111–14, 121; and hip hop,
112–14, 120–21, 127–34, 139–40; and
Napster, 112–13, 130; and pornography,
208, 209; Public Enemy album released
through, 128–29, 131

Interscope/Geƒen/A&M, 125
Interscope Records: and

The Chronic,

48–52; and Death Row Records, 46,
48–52; and Dr. Dre, 46, 48–50, 101, 104;
and Eminem, 44, 90, 91, 93, 100–101;
founders of, 43–45; and Ja Rule, 2; ros-
ter of musicians for, 44

Iovine, Jimmy, 43–45, 48, 49, 101
Island Def Jam Music Group, 125
It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot, 62–63
“It’s Yours,” 122
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us

Back, 117

Jackson, Curtis.

See 50 Cent (Curtis

Jackson)

Jackson, Henry “Big Hank,” 11–12, 18
Jackson, Michael, 94
Jackson, Rachel, 183
James, Kenya Jordana, 220–21
Ja Rule, 1–4, 6

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