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Kelefa Sanneh writes about pop music for The New York Times. He is also Deputy Editor of Transition Magazine, a pugnacious review of race and culture. His writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and a glossy Indian “lad rag” called Man’s World.
Kelefa Sanneh explores, through sound clips and commentary, the relationship between hip-hop’s mainstream success and rap’s gradual transformation. In the early days of hip-hop, a rapper’s sense of self-identity as a rapper was a common theme of the genre. Sanneh demonstrates that as rap music evolved, all this changed and “the rapper” disappeared.
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