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**Global Journal**
**of Hip Hop Culture**

The world’s first peer-reviewed global journal of hip hop culture is an international hip hop studies journal publishing research, interviews, poetry and visual culture.

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Volume 1, Issue 1: Inaugural Issue

Volume 1, Issue 1 introduces The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture as an early platform for serious hip-hop scholarship. Essays, poetry, and visual culture examine Black masculinity, political economy, and Washington, DC’s hip-hop scene.