This is the hip-hop generation, and the picture isn’t always pretty from the outside looking in. Known for its often-reckless brutality, coupled with its decadent materialism, and exploitive sexism, hip-hop often seems like more filth in an already filthy mire. But as an expression of the human heart, and all the tensions that lie within it, hip-hop can also accurately be viewed as a passionate pursuit of meaning and purpose. What the naysayers often fail to recognize is that this generation is starving for the truth