Hip Hopampamp39s Inheritance arguably offers the first booklength treatment of what hip hop culture has literally ampamp39inheritedampamp39 from the Harlem Renaissance the Black Arts movement the Feminist Art movement and 1980s and 1990s postmodern aesthetics. By comparing and contrasting the major motifs of the aforementioned cultural aesthetic traditions with those of hip hop culture all the while critically exploring the origins and evolution of black popular culture from antebellum America through to ampampquotObamaampamp39s Americaampampquot Hip Hopampamp39s Inheritance demonstrates that the Hip Hop generation is not the first generation of young black folk preoccupied with spirituality and sexuality race and religion entertainment and athletics or ghetto culture and bourgeois culture.