Hip Hop as High Art?

http://www.jstor.org/stable/4134516?&Search=yes&term=Hip-Hop&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DHip-Hop%2B%26x%3D0%26y%3D0%26wc%3Don&item=4&ttl=1855&returnArticleService=showArticle

As I was doing some searching on JSTOR, I came across this article and I think it will have some helpful information to use in my research paper.  Although I haven't had chance to completely read it, (my plan is to have all my articles read and commented on by the end of the Break) I do think that the idea of the Rapper as a High Artist is going to be a valuable tool to question the identity of rap.  I think also that if we look at Rap as a High Art and then place the female Rapper into this context . . . we will wonder what high artistic representation of the Female the female rapper has.