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Historians and cultural critics trace the post-modernist hip hop movement which pioneered sampling and graffiti art to the 1970′s, New York, a movement rooted in the black nationalism of the black panthers post civil rights movement (Price, 2006). Hip Hop has become a dominant global youth culture with music, art, fashion, films and Tupac an icon within this culture a “Black Elvis”. Hip Hop has many different sub genres such as conscious, gangsta, party rap and with emcees in the different genres according to their subject matter.

After the huge success of Kasabians’ third album, ‘West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’, there was a fair amount of expectation on the band to deliver the goods yet again. They delivered with ‘Velociraptor’. Memorable tracks such as Rewired, Switchblade Smiles and the brilliant Le Fee Verte make this album a truly remarkable achievement for a band who in recent years have made real progress in becoming one of the UK’s, if not the worlds best bands.