McWhorter quoting Rose on pg. 318, "Rappers are constantly taking dominant discursive fragments and throwing them into relief, destabilizing hegemonic discourses and attempting to legitimate counter-hegemonic interpretrations. Rap's contestations are part of a polyvocal black cultural discourse engaged in in discursive 'wars of position' within and against dominant discourses." (whew!) 'sez McWhorter.