Hip-Hop Generation Chunk #1

Hip-Hop Generation by Bakari Kitwana is the story of a new generation, in fact the first generation since the end of the civil rights movement. Chunk 1 discusses its emergence and its rise and its difference from the previous generations. "Both rappers, like their peers who saw hope and promise in their short lives, were hip-hop genrationers--those African Americans born between 1965 and 1984 who came of age in the eighties and ninties and who share a specific set of values and attitudes(4)." People born in this period of time have a different outlook on the world than their elders. He discusses how "hip-hop generationers" experience hardships such as poverty, crime, racial animosity, negative stereotypes, few job opportunities, and corruption. He discusses how young African Americans are given less of a chance to succeed in a society that does not care for them. For example, "The hip-hop generation, those Blacks born between 1965 and 1984, entered the job force during the 1980s and 1990s, a period marked by falling wages, worsening conditions for unskilled workers, and growing disparities in income and wealth between America's minority rich and majority poor (27)." This is an example of one of the many problems that "hip-hop generationers" experience.

Clarification: What makes the "hip-hop generationers" different from the previous generations?
Application: Have you ever experienced or known anyone who has experience the problems that the "hip-hop generationers" experience?