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The book was criticized for its focus on the political aspects. According to ''[[The New York Times]]'', "Chang is interested in hip-hop as a revolutionary medium... [so] he more or less leaves music behind... as a result, his provocative, intermittently brilliant history begins to lose its form and focus,"<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/books/review/04ABRAM.html?_r=1 | work=The New York Times | title='Can't Stop Won't Stop': A Nation of Millions | first=Alex | last=Abramovich | date=September 4, 2005}}</ref> and "by the end of Chang's history, the ''four elements'' have fallen away entirely, and politics are all that remain to tie the hip-hop generation together."<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/books/review/04ABRAM.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5070&en=2320b5c7c907dfaf&ex=1127275200 | work=The New York Times | title='Can't Stop Won't Stop': A Nation of Millions | first=Alex | last=Abramovich | date=September 4, 2005}}</ref> It was also criticized for leaving out key elements of hip-hop history - "if you want to read a long and unbelievably self-indulgent trawl through the internal politics of US hip-hop magazine ''The Source'', then this is the place to do it. But [[Biggie Smalls]] and [[Missy Elliott]] get just one mention apiece, and Eminem - white devil that he is - is excluded from history altogether." says ''[[The Independent]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/cant-stop-wont-stop-a-history-of-the-hiphop-generation-by-jeff-chang-504605.html|title=''Can't Stop Won't Stop'': a history of the hip-hop generation by Jeff Chang|last=Thompson|first=Ben|date=28 August 2005|work=[[The Independent]]|accessdate=4 May 2010 | ___location=London}}</ref>

===KRS-One’s criticism===

In 2007, [[KRS-One]] criticized ''Can’t Stop Won’t Stop'': "When I read ''Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop'' I didn’t see the scholarship. I saw [[Kool Herc]] thrown at the front of the book for his own credibility – and the foreword was wack."<ref name=autogenerated1>[http://www.unkut.com/2007/06/krs-one-the-unkut-interview/ KRS-One – The Unkut Interview | unkut.com - A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> His main point of contention was with the way he himself was covered: "[Jeff Chang] gets around to the Stop The Violence movement and totally down-plays the movement, destroys any kind of hope we have for leadership in our culture, and just breezes over with inaccurate information about the Stop The Violence movement."<ref name=autogenerated1 />