
“It’s endured as it captures the feel of New York City so perfectly,” reckons the song’s legendary producer Pete Rock. It serves as a time capsule to a brighter moment for New York City: a teenage rap prodigy called Nas had briefly unified the five boroughs, making everyone believe they had an heir to Rakim who could help win back dominance from the West Coast. Thanks to its perfect blend of vivid jazz, dusty boom bap, and teenage wisdom, ‘The World Is Yours’ still has infinite replay value 27 years later. Finally, it critiques the place and role of hip-hop in popular culture, academia and countries throughout the world.In the latest installment of our Behind The Beat series, Thomas Hobbs spoke with the legendary Pete Rock about how he and a teenaged Nas recorded “The World is Yours,” one of the greatest rap records of all time. It then presents two case studies, one in South America (São Paulo, Brazil) and the other in Europe (Paris, France). It then considers the modes of dissemination of African American music, language and politics worldwide and the influence of various forms of media and technology. It begins with an analysis of features of hip-hop in the U.S. I am solely responsible for its content.an analysis of the cultural, linguistic and artistic features of hip-hop that cultures translate into their social world and embed in their culture, language ideology, and performance styles.


Moya (eds) Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century. 176–196 and Marcyliena Morgan and Dawn Elissa Fischer (2010) ‘Hiphop and Race: Blackness, Language and Creativity’, in Hazel Rose Markus and Paula L. It is the response to the song's refrain, ‘Whose world is this?' This article is partially based on Marcyliena Morgan and Dionne Bennett (2011) ‘Hip-Hop and the Global Imprint of a Black Cultural Form’, Daedalus vol. This article is † This quote is from Nas (aka Nassir Jones) 1994 ‘The World is Yours' Illmatic, Columbia Records.
