“While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop.”
― We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
― We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
“Much success to you, even if you wish me the opposite/ sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is.”
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“If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work”
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