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nb: maybe you should encourage these kids to actually take hip hop seriously, to try to do it--provide them with the encouragement and the material possibilities to carry out an engagement with the form.
it would stand the passive fantasy world you complain about on its head.
it would show straight away that hip hop is a craft, like any other form of music.
it would probably drive the kids straight out of coporate music, because of its obvious limitations.
if you did it, you could show them other types of the music.
or they would try to find them on their own.
but to even start you would have to abandon the absurd position that the opening is based on.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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