Introduction
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My hypothesis for this study is that the rap music of PI uses several modes of African American discourse, although modified to be appropriate for a verbal performance/art setting. These modesa are used for many of the same reasons and purposes that they are in everyday discourse. They index a continuing challenge to the dominant society in play during the 1980's to early 2000's. My focus will be on four modes: call-response, signification (rapping), tonal semantics, narrative sequencing, and modification of selected phonological and grammatical features.