This article makes a revision of the academic researches about Hip Hop, indicating the emphasis on identity concept in those related theories. We aim to contextualize the growth of identity in the views of Hip Hop, pointing to its combination with citizenship concept. Such identitary logical is narrowly connected with the construction of the desviating categories notion. Forged on the backstage of urbanization, the identirary logical is the academic expression of a rationality which we named preventive paradigm, that intents to anticipate an eventual violent potential of youth living in outskirts. Therefore, this article is about understanding the production of outskirts and youth like a social problem, thus analyzing the conceptions which support the corrective and moral ideals that are expressed in the Hip Hop researches through their emphasis on its identitary benefits.
Hip Hop; Identity; Insecurity; Social Psychology