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Most lynchings of blacks in the USA throughout the late 19th and early 20th century occurred in the South, notably in Texas, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee. These states also formed the core of the Confederacy, which during the Civil War opposed the abolition of slavery.

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Ye isn`t the first artist in popular culture to perform for a leader of a non-democratic country. A number of the US' stars are drawn to such private shows, for the easy money and relatively low workload.

  1. Seal
  2. Julio Iglesias
  3. Jennifer Lopez

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Satelliten umkreisen die Erde in sehr großen Höhen und konnen genutzt werden um Funk- und Telefongespräche abzuhören.

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Nach den Anschlägen auf das World Trade Center am 11.September 2001 verstärkte sich der Trend des racial profiling und der Rasterfahndung gegenüber Arabern und Muslimen.

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Der Begriff “Big Brother” wurde durch Orwells Buch 1984 geprägt und steht sinnbildlich für eine totale Überwachung.
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Fun Fact: Talib Kweli’s verse was the last piece recorded on College Dropout.

In an interview with Complex, Talib Kweli said that his verse was added to the track a whole bar after he intended it to on the final track:

Where my verse starts on ‘Get Em High’ is an entire bar after where I really started it at. He didn’t edit the rhyme. He just started it a bar late…Whoever flew it in when I sent it to him, flew it in wrong. So it mathematically was on beat, but it’s definitely not how I laid it. So I was very upset. I called Kanye and I was like, ‘Yo, this is crazy. How could you do this to me?'

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No Malice hear is praying for forgiveness from God. The second part of this line is likely to be taken as an admission of sin.

He feels like he either killed, in a way of of taking away from his mother, himself or his older brother by introducing him to the drug trade.

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Young artists trying to make it big often underestimate how difficult the path to getting a record deal is. Since Tip has already gone through the process, he is warning the next gen of rappers to be careful when dealing with these guys.

Remember: if you aren’t paying for something, then you are the product. And you will be exploited.

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Not everyone can survive in the game til they are old:

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Eiht talked to HipHopDX about his appearance on this song:

Well, Kendrick’s the young generation. And I wasn’t really up on the young generation with Rap, because of the style and the direction they were headed—no realism in the music.[…]

But, Kendrick reached out to me, through family members. […] C’mon, let’s face it, him being on Aftermath and affiliated with Dr. Dre, he coulda went and got Snoop, he coulda went and got Game or Quik or whoever. So, for him to come to me, I just felt [that respect].

When I talked to him about the direction of where he was trying to go with the song, and how he was saying his album was basically telling the story of his life in Compton, it was a perfect match. He was like, “When I thought about the song, and I thought about growing up in the city, the first thing people said was you need to get with Eiht. He’s a perfect storyteller. He ain’t never strayed off the path of realism in his records. He’s always represented Compton in that type of light.” So, we got in the studio, and he explained it to me, and then I just came up with my verse.

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