hiphop discourse

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Doug Millison wrote:

> At the risk of drawing fire for merely asking the question, how does this
> hip-hop thread relate to Pynchon?

Black or Afro-American culture is important in Pynchon. Especially stereotypes
or archetypes like, for example, the "big black motherfucker" aka "badass", a
character that was not invented by hip hop (an older version would be Stagger
Lee) but lies at the heart of the gangsta/pimp-myth some of hip hop's
protagonists have created around themselves.

Thomas