Rap,HipHop, and Class

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Tue Dec 1 06:16:09 PST 1998



> . . .
> proportions. Also, it must be emphasized that rappers are just about the
> only Black people these days who get to express Black rage publicly (be
> it contrived or the real thing, with all of its contradictions and
> mysogynistic content) . . .

Best rejoinder to anyone complaining only about black rap lyrics is to quote some bon mots from Johnny Cash:

"I shot a man in Reno,

Just to watch him die . . . "

mbs



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