Facilitation #1 Questions -- Ashley Merdkhanian

1.  How can the influence of hip hop and hip hop culture affect one's religion/religious beliefs? (Islamic in this case)
2. Many hip hop artists have come from Chicago; thus, building a reputation of being a legendary place in which to experience music or even start off in the music industry itself. How do you think this influenced Khabeer to do research in Chicago?
3. In your opinion, how do you think Black Islam played a central role in the development of hip hop's epistemology?
4. How do you think this research study would have differed if it was conducted outside of the United States?
5. What do you think about Man-O-Wax's view on how this mentality "has no geography." (p. 31) Does this go against the theory of environment shaping who you are as a person (in a sense)? How can everyone from Chicago have the same view as everyone from Los Angeles? Can they?