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==== Hip-hop ==== In 2006 (before receiving a Rhodes Scholarship), lawyer and current Lieutenant Governor of New York [[Antonio Delgado (politician)|Antonio Delgado]] critiqued capitalism and racial injustice under the name "AD the Voice."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/us/politics/antonio-delgado-lyrics.html|title=A Congressional Candidate Used to Be a Rapper. Will It Matter?|newspaper=The New York Times |date=17 July 2018 |access-date=2018-11-23|last1=Herndon |first1=Astead W. }}</ref> Roughly 90 years previously, the phrase "keeping it real" was used by Rhodes scholar [[Alain Locke]] in his book ''[[The New Negro]]'' to describe the pursuit of in the face of mainstream media's portrayal of African American culture.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The New negro|last=Locke|first=Alain|date=1997|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=978-0684838311|edition= 1st Touchstone|location=New York, N.Y.|oclc=37551618}}</ref> Locke's work inspired the [[Harlem Renaissance]] movement, and "keeping it real" has since become a universally recognized [[Hip hop|hip-hop]] ethos.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Price|first=Robert Jr|date=2005|title=Hegemony, Hope, and the Harlem Renaissance: Taking Hip Hop Culture Seriously|url=https://newprairiepress.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=2681&context=aerc|journal=Kansas State University Libraries|via=newprairiepress.org}}</ref>
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