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Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff Chang5/29/2023 ![]() You can peep our interview below…Chang is currently working on a book about race and multi-culturlism as a follow-up to his excellent book. The cult movie Warriors was inspired by this Peace Treaty.Ĭhang noted the 71 peace Treaty paved the way for Hip Hop as it allowed folks from all over to go in various neighborhoods and artistically express themselves via dance, emceeing and deejaying. In 1971 the gangs of the Bronx got together and forged a Peace Treaty. Should they make peace and transform the neighborhoods or continue down a path of destruction. The gangs grew in size and began to war against one another until it reached a critical point where folks reached a fork in the road. This in turn led to what Chang described as chaos which led to the explosions of gangs who attempted to create and enforce some sort of order. This left many of the areas impoverished with its decreased tax base. ![]() Here we sit down and talk about his perspective on street gangs and how they influenced Hip Hop culture.Ĭhang talks to us about the culture of abandonment in the late 60s and early 70s when many whites fled the Bronx in what we call ‘white flight’. ![]() ![]() ![]() Straight from the Davey D Archives, we pull out an interview we did with author Jeff Chang back in August of 2008 at the National Political Hip Hop Convention about his book ‘ Can’t Stop Won’t Stop‘. ![]()
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