Chapter 11 - Hip Hop Planet - Questions for Discussion: David Brooks, writing in the New York Times in 2005 about riots in French housing projects, says, “In a globalized age it’s perhaps inevitable that the culture of resistance gets globalized, too. What we are seeing is what Mark Lilla of the University of Chicago calls a universal culture of the wretched of the earth. The images, modes and attitudes of hip hop and gangsta rap are so powerful they are having a hegemonic effect across the globe.” How does that view of hip hop compare to McBride’s? Do you think McBride would agree with Brooks? Explain why or why not.