The highway to hip hop

by Toni Randolph, Minnesota Public Radio

Hip-hop music was first heard on the radio in the late-'70s, but its roots go back much further. Hip-hop journalist Jeff Chang traces it back to poverty and despair left behind in the Bronx after the borough was gutted for construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway. Chang explained to Minnesota Public Radio's Toni Randolph why he wrote the book.