in an intense, media-infused, East Coast/West Coast rap war. A mere 10 years ago intrinsic violence reached its peak within the Hip-Hop culture with the deaths of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. This black-on-black violence is thoroughly documented throughout the chronicles of Hip-Hop culture and rap narratives. He offers both gangsta rap and progressive rap as a rhetorical means for social transformation. However, what he does even better is that he connects these traumatic situations in the Black community with the need for renewed combat and a new vision for the Black community. Pinn (1999) does an excellent job in connecting the notion of absurdity with the awesome defects of ghetto life. The hostile environment essentially creates absurdity that many inner-city Black Americans face as a result of economic malaise and institutional and political racism. He continues by stating that self-hatred, which is manifested in Black-on-Black crime, is a result of inhabiting in a state of absurdity. He defines absurdity as a phenomenon that “connotes alienation from self, and leads to a collapse of self-esteem” (p.10). 17).Īnthony Pinn (1999) suggests that a condition of absurdity plagues severe economically deprived communities.
Because the colonizer/oppressor is much an exhibitionist with power, and as a result an intimidating force, “the muscular tension of the colonized periodically erupts into bloody fighting between tribes, clans, and individuals” (p. Once the dream is finished, the oppressed individual exiting repose first exercises this physicality against his own people. Fanon’s argument is that while dreaming the oppressed individual experiences a freedom of motion through physical acts of running, jumping, and climbing. Frantz Fanon (1963) uses a psychological approach to introducing intrinsic violence through a discussion on the freedom experience that dreams provide the oppressed. It is Neil Roberts (2004) who defines intrinsic violence in juxtaposition with instrumental violence (anti-hegemonic/vertical) by suggesting “in contrast to instrumental violence, refers to a metaphysical concept in which the act of either random irrational or calculated rational violence itself contains inherent value” (p. This intra-racial violence is commonly referred to as horizontal violence and/or intrinsic violence (Fanon, 1963 Roberts, 2004). The most popularized forms of violence within rap music are those acts of violence perpetuated by black males against other black males (see Cave, et.
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