Hip-Hop Revolution in the Flesh investigates the lyrical literature of Hip-Hop. Greg Thomas takes a political and epistemological approach to the rap texts of Lil' Kim, examining the radical sexual politics inside the works of the artist who is known as Hip-Hop's "Big Momma/Queen Bitch" and who has been hailed by the likes of Toni Morrison and bell hooks for her anti-puritanical and Blues-inspired artistic persona. In this critical study of subjects ranging from orality to race to the politics of imprisonment, Hip-Hop is revealed to radically reinvent the dominant social constructions of human embodiment and human consciousness. Book jacket.