David Lord Beats, Rhymes, and Culture Final Paper I recently saw footage from a 60 minutes interview with one of hip-hop's biggest superstars, Jay-Z. Part of the footage that particularly intrigued me was when Jay-Z was performing at a live concert. There were thousands of fans at a sold out venue, all cheering and giving praise to their favorite rapper. A track was then turned on, and the crowd went crazy. It was one of Jay-Z's biggest hits, "Hard Knock Life." This is a very fitting song to a person like Jay-Z, due to his rough upbringing in the Marcy Projects of Brooklyn, New York. The one thing about this song that does not fit is the crowd that is has gone into a frenzy and is singing along to the Broadway sampled "Annie" in the chorus. Much of the crowd is white, suburban teenagers, both male and female. This is strange to me due to the fact that I anyone could tell, simply by looking at them in their preppy Abercrombie clothing, that they definitely have not liv...