“Rap is not pop. If you call it that then stop.” – Q-Tip, A Tribe Called Quest, “Check The Rhime” “Let them know your logo, not a black thing, My background sing, my background sing for the crossover…” Erick Sermon, EPMD, “Crossover” Say what you want about her but when it comes to the issue of elite corporations…
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Cleophas Jacobs joined Dr. Hate, Mwariama Kamau and Jared Ball for more discussion of Black Power, The Garvey Movement and African Fighting Sciences. We also talked about hip-hop’s Marcus Garvey cultural memory and the adoption by prominent Black intellectuals of Richard Nixon’s intentionally distorted definition of Black Power. Specifically, we looked at this morning’s truly…
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