In this article, Kyle T. Mays looks at Indigenous Hip Hop as a tool of decolonization in two places: Detroit and Palastine. Mays takes time to define Indigenous culture, colonization, decolonization and Hip Hip culture in both places. Hip Hop has the ability to spread the message about decolonization through artistic and political means.
As my final project will be looking at Indigenous Hip Hop as a means of decolonization, this article shed a lot of light on a region I did not know about, Detroit, and a region I did not think of as indigenous, Palestine. I can now see Palestine from the colonial point of view, and am interested in exploring the music of the region that is working to fight against imperial powers.
Mays, Kyle T. “Decolonial Hip Hop: Indigenous Hip Hop and the Disruption of Settler Colonialism.” Cultural Studies, vol. 33, no. 3, 2019, pp. 460–479., doi:10.1080/09502386.2019.1584908.