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The rift between Jay Z and Harry Belafonte that has surfaced in the last few weeks has received tons of media attention.

After addressing Belafonte’s words that superstars “have turned their back on social responsibility”, everyone is debating on who seems to make a better point.

Bakari Kitwana of Rap Sessions and Mark Anthony Neal of Left of Black sat down via video chat and recorded themselves unpacking the shortcomings of the recent Jay Z/ Belafonte debate.

Instead of creating a beef between the Civil Rights Movement and Hip Hop Generation, Kitwana and Neal believe that this beef can be an opportunity to create a course of action.

Both of these two’s body of work, an essay “Zen and the Art of Transcending the Status Quo” by Kitwana and an essay “My Passport Says Shawn: Toward a Hip-Hop Cosmopolitanism” by Neal, begin the starting points of the discussion.

Check out the conversation between these two in the videos above and below!