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Enter the Babylon System

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Yeah, Black History Month's over as far as the calendar's concerned but the editors of Pound magazine have published a book about one of the biggest problems in black youth and hip hop culture at large: GUNS. Rodrigo Bascunan and Christian Pearce explore the place of guns within hip hop in terms of its obvious impacts but also reseach the manufacturing and distribution as well. Some of these uncoverings may surprise the average person. Like other issues of violence in western society, the problems of guns is not exclusive to the black and hip hop community, it, like violence, is an American obsession in general but the pair look at how much of an element it is to the uber-present "thug" figure which sells to the black and non-black hip hop audiences so well.

Enter the Babylon System official site | Book Excerpt | Pound Mag "Barrels of Destruction" article | "Trigger Happy" CBC article | Buy the book

Lyrics to Nas' I Gave You Power (song from the point of view of a gun itself)

Nas: Got Ur Self a Gun

West Coast Rap All-Stars: We're All in the Same Gang (1989)

Stop the Violence Movement: Self Destruction (1989) - the east's equivalent to "We're All in the Same Gang"

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