Rachel is my proffesor of Hip- Hop. Tonight inspired by something she said, I turned my blog over to her and she wrote "Hip hop is the new rock'n'roll, which was the new jazz. However, hip hop is different in that it has been stigmatized by the 'crack music' image that is so particular to the black ghettos of the post-reagan era. Whereas both rock-n-roll and jazz sparked necessary cross-cultural awakenings, hip hop has been co-opted and so dehumanized by the mainstream meida that it perpetuates, rather than dissolves racial divisions and wealth disparities. Hip hop has been so bastardized by the upper strata of society that most Americans, particularly those born before the Reagan era, don't even consider the possibility of hip hop as a true art form. Hip hop, more than any other cultural force today, has the power to inspire a much-needed revolution-- we just need to reclaim it. "

We were listening to Baby Chams " Babylon Bwoy" and she refered to a man she had worked with, and so was never able to act on her attraction for. He was the Hip Hop buyer for one of the major record stores in the Bay Area. And she said , " Boy that was a missed piece of man-estate." I thought that was funny. Has anyone heard this expression before?