Can't Stop Won't Stop (pg 61-127)

Summary: I learned something new while reading. Looking in the table of contents, I saw that this books is written in loops. I don't know if a loop is a literary term or something that he made up. If it is something that he made up then it sounds pretty interesting and could be used forevermore. So basically what goes on in this section is that hip hop is actually invented and the violence and whatnot doesn't come along in these parts of the book.


Quote: "At the same time, discos were shutting down and house parties were declining, partly because gangs like the Spades were making them unsafe" (Chang 77).


Reaction: My reaction to this is that discos may have been gettting old. I say that because the quote says they were shutting down. Therefore I think that it was too old. Anyway, this is where hip hop starts to generate.

Can't Stop Won't Stop (pg 31-60)

Summary: This section of the book contains a good amount of information. It talks about how people are in jail due to various reasons. One reason is that people were caught with illegal things when they were frisked by the police. In that instant, they were arrested and heading off to jail. The people who weren't arrested smashed police cars and set them on fire. There was a sea of bad things these people did to the cops for just one little action.


Quote: "We got hit with three firebombs, Molotov cocktails from across the street. The grapevine had it that it was done by some gang members" (Chang 47).


Reaction: My reaction to this quote would be kind of surprising if it was a different situation. What I mean by that is if it was a diferent type of book or maybe even a different type of setting, then I wouldn't necessarily expect this. But just because it;s the type of book it is, then something like this is pretty much anticipated. I don't think those things were thrown by gang members because the police had a serious feud with them so maybe it could have been the police.