In his essay, The Hip Hop Nation. Whose is it? In the End, Black Men Must Lead, Toure defines the complexity and selectivity that associated with the hip hop nation. I like his writing style, in the begging of his essay when he said that no map maker would respect this nation because it has no fixed boundaries, no physical land, no single chief, and no exact date of origin. Rather, hip hop nation is a state of mind. And he credits Muhammad Ali, Bob Marley, Huey Newton, and James Brown as being the prophets of this exclusive nation (Toure 100). He goes on to explain how the hip-hop nation has its traditions, laws, and gods, but no president. Instead, there is a powerful senate that guides the nation, made up of the elite rappers. An important
