When Questlove says hip-hop is 'history,' he means it in more ways than one

Questlove, the accomplished musician, filmmaker and author, most recently of “Hip-Hop Is History,” is no doubt aware that his title cuts more than one way. It indicates both that hip-hop is a significant musical genre and that some of its significance is located in the past. I read Questlove’s 2013 memoir, “Mo’ Meta Blues,” as I was starting the doctoral program that I would finish by submitting a hip-hop album as my dissertation.

This might happen when the historian is writing a history that he is very close to and in which he plays a significant part. This may account for Questlove’s occasional informal shifts from objective and omniscient narration of “important events” that sound like traditional history to incredibly personal and subjective opinions.

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