Alternate Possibilities for Actions and Hip Hop

Usually, answers to questions about whether we are morally responsible for our actions depend on answers to questions about whether we control our own lives.

In the track "Positions of Strength", rapper Felix of Heiruspecs contemplates the ways in which our lives are controlled by existing organizational structures. 

More Personal Identity in Hip Hop

In this track, Dessa describes an experience where she had a hard time recognizing her friend as the person that she had always known him to be.  She struggles with the question of whether the person she interacts with is the same person who has been her friend for years.  When she questions whether she is really speaking with "The Man I Knew", what kind of changes make her question his identity?  What does this indicate about what she thinks are criteria for personal identity?

Personal Identity and P.O.S.

This track from P.O.S., "De la Souls" is his take on his own personal identity.  He seems to conceive of his own personal identity as a kind of narrative he tells about his own life.  In other words, personal identity for him is made up of the kind of stories we tell about ourselves and how these stories shape who we are.