Nelson George > Quotes

“Farrakhan”
― Nelson George, Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans

“The video for the single “My Philosophy” is a crucial hip hop document. Directed by Fab Five Freddy”
― Nelson George, Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans

“NOVEMBER L.L. Cool J’s Radio is the first album released by Def Jam Records under a distribution deal with CBS subsidiary Columbia. Besides introducing the teenaged rapper to America”
― Nelson George, Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans

“APRIL Living Colour”
― Nelson George, Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans

“A huge rally is held on 125th Street in front of the State Office Building”
― Nelson George, Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans

“The crack economy creates urban enterprise zones all over this post-soul nation. The product is so addictive and sells so quickly that it creates a class of criminal as reckless and notorious as the bank robbers of the Depression. And”
― Nelson George, Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans

“As more blacks win prominent positions in the Democratic Party”
― Nelson George, Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans

“MARCH 28 The romance of downtown new wave/punk with uptown hip hop spawns Blondie’s “Rapture,” the first number-one pop single with rapping on it”
― Nelson George, Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans

“JANUARY 12 Keenan Ivory Wayans’s I’m Gonna Get Ya Sucka premieres at New York’s Loew’s Astor Plaza. Wayans establishes himself as a major comic talent by directing”
― Nelson George, Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans

“The term “post-soul” defines the twisting”
― Nelson George, Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans

“One of the safe assumptions of Post-Soul Nation is that the inventions”
― Nelson George, Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans