In this week’s reading, “Melle Mel in the Megaplex” Casey Hayman says “Since its inception, hip-hop culture has taken as a fundamental element the transformation of marginality into opportunity, using and reusing the symbols and signs of a hyperreal, spectacle-based society in a constantly contested negotiation with the hegemonic mass culture.”*
In 250-300 words explain the ways the Disco 3 (aka the Fat Boys) turned marginality into opportunity and the symbols and signs of hip hop and rap culture they employed to achieve their success.
*Hayman, Casey. Melle Mel in the Megaplex: Postmodern Performance and the Hip-Hop Real
in Krush Groove & Beat Street. African American Review, vol. 46, no. 1, 2013, p. 122-123.
