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Transcription: [00:33:56]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}

--teenagers more than 60 years ago. It is almost exactly like rapping, the only real difference being the social context in which it was performed, and the type of musical accompaniment. Here you're using the records spun by a DJ, there you're using your own accompaniment.

[00:34:13]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}

Rapping, though-- why rapping is-- has come into such popularity in recent years, though, is a much harder question to answer. When MC Caesar said that it's part of a community, a part of a-- part of a, a complex one might say, uh-- a complex which is perhaps best defined by the word hip-hop.
[00:34:32]
You've got rapping, you've got the art of the DJ, you have the graffiti artists, you've got popping, breakdancing, and GQ dancing. It's all part of a cultural complex which has risen together and developed together. Why each part of that occurs at this particular point in time, though, who knows? Is there-- are there other questions?

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{SILENCE}

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}

Ok yes sir?

{SPEAKER name="Unknown Speaker"}
[[inaudible]]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}

Ok MC Caesar, your voices have captured an appreciative audience. The gentleman wants to hear you do the robot voice again, I think the one you opened up with.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Uh, this one
[[robot voice]]
We are about to astro-travel into the sounds of the grandmaster now production band.
[[applause]]
[[normal voice]]
Thank you. Thank you everybody. Thank you.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Are there other questions from the audience?
{SILENCE}
If not let's have a-- oh there's one more question. Yes sir, all the way in the back in the light blue shirt?

{SPEAKER name="Unknown Speaker"}
[[inaudible]]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Why don't you come a little further up and ask the question?

{SPEAKER name="Unknown Speaker"}
[[inaudible]]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Glen Dynahue.

{SPEAKER name="Unknown Speaker"}
[[??]]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}

Ok the question was whether or not rappers will perform--