![]() ![]() In sociologist Tricia Rose’s 1994 book Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, Freddy says that inventing new styles is “what makes feel so good - that pressure on you to be the best. The best explanation I’ve found of the anti-resemblance rule comes from the artist and hip-hop pioneer Fab Five Freddy. Swagger, as a contemporary phenomenon, is very much associated with hip-hop. As a result, it’s impossible to fake or imitate. ![]() Writing with swagger breaks rules, morphs nonstop, and defies both itself and all efforts to contain it. In fact, one of swagger’s major characteristics is that it changes unstoppably. What I mean, in part, is that it has charisma, balls, a seductively bad attitude - but the craft of literary swagger is, by its nature, not an easy thing to pin down. ![]() My favorite compliment to give a novel is to say it has swagger. ![]()
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