"We live in a hip-hop nation," said David Goffin, executive producer of "Rock Star: INXS."
Tommy Hilfiger's red, white and blue gear - the sartorial rage of the hip-hop nation - dominates.
In the same way, "Mundian" is now expanding the geographical boundaries of the hip-hop nation.
This posse permanently changed the face of West Coast rap and that of the hip-hop nation itself.
Mind you, the officials they hope to influence are, for the most part, not racing to apply for green card status, let alone citizenship, in the hip-hop nation.
But Jin was about as far from the hip-hop nation as you could get.
Pop culture pundits have proclaimed the existence of Woodstock Nation and hip-hop nation, so why not Slam Nation?
The classic love story is set in the "hip-hop nation," and will be performed in modern dress outdoors at the Harlem School of Arts Courtyard Theater.
Anybody over 18 in the hip-hop nation needs to consider themselves adults.