" Also with us is Dr. Maya Rockeymoore, she's a policy analyst and author of "The Political Action Handbook: A How to Guide for the Hip Hop Generation.

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Jeff Chang is the author of Can't Stop Won't Stop, the History of the Hip-Hop Generation.

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Dr. MAYA ROCKEYMOORE (Policy Analyst, Author, "The Political Action Handbook: A How-To Guide for the Hip-Hop Generation"): Thank you.

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In addition to speaking engagements, she is writing a memoir about her life with AIDS and trying to produce a television special using hip-hop music and celebrities to raise awareness in the younger generation.

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What is your generation going to do to make sure that hip-hop continues to grow and elevate and expand?

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But on his newest album, In My Element, 28-year-old Glasper delivers his own brand of jazz to a generation largely composed of listeners only exposed to hip-hop.

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And the early rap generation overwhelmingly sampled his music and voice as they laid the foundation of hip-hop culture.

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The music has that deceptively dashed-off quality that is characteristic of younger-than-Neil hip-hop performers, punk-inspired rockers and the rare musicians of Neil Young's generation who haven't settled into complacent craftsmanship.

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Though several 1990s hip-hop acts were featured, including the reunited Wu-Tang Clan, it promoted the next generation with 2 Chainz, Danny Brown, Earl Sweatshirt and others.

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Some are directed at "members of the post-civil rights era generation of Black academics" who matured as writers and intellectuals during the rise of hip hop culture.

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