Jay Electronica v. Peter Rosenberg
Black people v. Jews: Round 100,000,000… The latest involves Jay Electronica’s new album, a verse, and a rap radio commentary response from Peter Rosenberg. Of course the “Drake of Radio (😂)” would have to attempt some comment. Right?
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“The Most Visible Mulattoes”: Drake and Obama Match Hip-Hop and Politics
Lorraine Hansberry once cautioned against an artist seeking to ignore the specific nature of their racial categorization, history and experience. Her point was that to dismiss that particularity with the narrow, anecdotal tale of one’s own success was to damage the potential to interpret the reality of a broader community. To separate the conditions of Black people broadly…
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