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Re: How did America do it
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Wednesday, June 1 2011, 18:19:29 (UTC)
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That's an astute observation about Rap.. I personally don't listen to Rap, though I do like it's percurser that came around the time of Black Power and Black is Beautiful, and that would be the late '60s and early '70s and was shaped with the post-MLK rage of the Black Panthers. The Watts Phrophets, The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron's music were revolutionary and about making change, not about accepting society as it is and trying to be a winner. What I hear alot in mainstream Rap is "things is fucked up, but I'm gonna make that paper" and be a Black-gangster petit-bourgeois. The guys from the '60s and '70s never left the hood or ghetto, that's why their music was hungry and real. These days alot of rappers will only go to the ghetto to maybe visit a friend who still lives out there. Most Black rappers in LA live among Jews and Liberal millionaires in Bel Air, not Compton or Watts, but they often sing about the hood 'cause it sells albums and an image.



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