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I for one am thankful for hip-hop even though I would not call myself a huge fan. I’m thankful that it somehow managed to make some imaginative yet commercially viable music, that it talks frankly about violence and sex and is a voice of the disenfranchised and serves, like every disenfranchised voice, as a model for cool for a bunch of hopelessly uncool white kids. Plenty of folks see it as the harbinger of cultural collapse; I say it’s made everything better – it’s even made its opponents work that much harder. Read more...
I was listening to a little Lupe Fiasco at work on Friday. Interesting.
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