No We Can’t All Just Get Along: hip hop, gang unity and the LA rebellion.
Excerpts focusing on the lead-up and aftermath of the LA riots from Jeff Chang's Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation


1:50:40 – No We Can’t All Just Get Along: hip hop, gang unity and the LA rebellion – By Jeff Chang – MP3 – ArticlePDF – Torrent – Archive – YouTube


Excerpts focusing on the lead-up and aftermath of the LA riots from Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. This Zine offers valuable insight into how armed proletarian street organizations, united against the police, and did so in the context of a modern urban insurrection. In a post-Ferguson america, these lessons are as relevant as ever.

“…Jeff has captured the spirit of actual people living in LA that signed peace treaties and fought the police better than any other observer. The reason this section is so good is because Chang is less of an outsider than most who have looked at the riots, he grew up within the west coast hip hop community and he is a Korean American; both of which play a pivotal role in his analysis of the historic events of April 1992.”


– From The Introduction by the Institute for Experimental Freedom