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Transcription: [00:31:49]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
We're running out of time here in the workshop, so before we close I'd like to have the audience ask a few questions that they might have of any of the rappers here on stage Robby B, MC Caeser, Lazy Smurf, or Lady Ice Tea.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Do we have any questions out there?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Aw come on now there you go

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Come on. I here you breathin out there.
The question was that although rapping has been around for a long time, why is it that it has suddenly become such a popular form?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
First thing I'm gonna do is ask some of y'all that and let's see what your answers might be.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Well, it says to me that a lot of combinations together: graffiti, rap, break dance, and djs, they all start to you know like, evolve because people are finally coming down to the streets to see whats there. Usually people were scared of the streets, right, that's back when people were real wild in the streets but people coming down from the suburbs, the people who have a lot of money, and they picking us up off the streets because they finally see talent in it, so that's why it started to evolve, and plus we starting to polish up our act, that's what we are really doing, polishing it up, cause it was kinda trashy before but now we polishing it up.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
You know it's really hard to say exactly what causes an artistic form to gain popularity. With rapping, the rapping that was done on the streets to rhythms-lets say 20 or 30 years ago- it's quite different from that which you find now. People such as Horace Spoon Williams who you see on the main stage performing as a spoons player is also a street poet who does poetry to rhymes which he beats out on a jug. Now he's been doing that

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