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{Unknown speaker}
--[[??]] except that by the time rap hit the Anglo-American mainstream, your mama would have knocked you out for talking like many of the most popular rappers do in front of her. [[laughter]]
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Now, the best rappers still characterized by funky beats and positive messages, rap vocals are innocuous ones.
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{Unknown speaker}
Rap vocals, because they aren't tied to a melody in communicating warm material, resurrect generally the truth of black vocal music in the past.
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A shocking thing, the images of a violent decaying intercity of such rap classics as. "The Message," and "Fight the Power,"
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help to move the genre beyond the boasting, bragging personality commercials, but precisely because rap is as black as the blues,
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{Unknown speaker}
and jazz as R&B, until quite recently, production, distribution, and promotion, as well as the composition and direction were
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under black control in a way that these other genres of black music have never been, not even in the golden era of independent producers in the early 50s.
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I am driven to ask why so much of it has become so vehemently misogynistic, violent, sexually explicit, so soaked in black self-hatred.
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And even more importantly, why, given the way we are so ready to jump on Hollywood's demands, the media, and black women writers,
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for negatively distorted betrayals of black people, have black [[inaudible due to coughing sound]] critics, intellectuals been so willing to talk about the [[??]] innovative form of rap,
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its connection to traditional wells of black creativity, and thus to see even its most pornigraphic levels as "Art,"
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yet been so slow to analyze and critique that content, and to label that content where necessary as pathological, anti-social and anti-communities.
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By our silence, we have allowed what used to be permissible only in the locker room or at stag parties, among consenting adults, to become the norm among our children.
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{Unknown speaker}
I started out talking about rap because it's-- because black people created the genre and continue to control it in way
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that you can't literally sing someone else's song, as most black artists are continuing to do,
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and because it's an easy target; what with the notoriety of 2 Live Crew and N.W.A.. But I don't exempt songs by both male and female vocalists
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{Unknown speaker}
Big Face, Keep Sweat, Salt-n-Pepper, etc... from the list of what has strained the bounds of good taste, which has always been and --
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Transcription Notes:
Speaker? It doesn't sound like Pearl, but it could be Toni. She wasn't introduced when she started talking two tapes back. PEarl is conducting these interviews.