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The MC that we love are usually the ones that we consider be kinda heartless, like 50 Cent. That's pretty much the prowess and power of an MC. That's what sells.
The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.
The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.
The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.
There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away.
We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.
We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.
What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.
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