Stare in the DarknessRaps critique of police brutality in the 1980s. The Hip Hop Political Convention. The rise (and fall) of Kwame Kilpatrick, the hip hop mayor of Detroit. Barack Obama echoing the body language of Jay Z on the campaign trail. A growing number of black activists and artists claim that rap and hip hop are the basis of an influential new urban social movement. Simultaneously, black citizens evince concern with the effect that rap and hip hop culture exerts