Jeff Chang ..Hip Hops Scholar in Residence

I just finished reading Jeff Changs "Hip Hop Nation".

Jeff Chang is one of those guys who if you need to embelish you're resume you hire!

He will make you bigger than what you realy are!

Jeff Chang calls himself a " hip-hop journalist"!

Only in the halls of Berkley can one get such a title.

Any way Jeff has made a name for himself.

He is one of "hip-hop's intellectual pioneers".

A "quote from Jeff sums it all up!

"We've grown up with multiculturalism, grown up in a world where pop culture has always mediated how we analyze the world.

We're not afraid of the media anymore; there's a constant dialogue in hip-hop about the gaps

between our reality and the ways we're represented.

We're naturally interdisciplinary; we mix signifiers, we break everything down to bits and bytes and rebuild something new."

Given that billons of dollars is now involved, I wonder if Jeff realy wants to break it all down

and build something new.

Maybe Hip Hop Country, thats new.


According to his website he has worked for URB and The Bomb Hip-Hop magazines, and has

written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Village Voice, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Vibe,

Spin, The Nation, and Mother Jones, among others.

He was a Senior Editor/Director at Russell Simmons' 360hiphop.com, and a founding editor of ColorLines magazine.

He was an organizer of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention and serves as a board member for several organizations working for social change in youth and community organizing, media justice, culture, the arts, and hip-hop activism.

After being politicized by the anti-apartheid and anti-racist movements at U.C. Berkeley

he worked as a community, labor and student organizer, and as a lobbyist for the students of the California State University system


In other words he is a big, fat, extra biscuit on the side Liberal!

Instead of writing real history books Jeff writes Hip Hop History books.


Jeff is of Chinese and Native Hawaiian ancestry.

Showing he still has a taste for the "streets" he claims to be a big fan of Japanese curry

and poi.