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Dub FX - Thinking Clear - 11/11 Genius – August 2016 Album Release Calendar

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Living Colour - Who Shot Ya? - 5/6 Genius – September 2016 Album Release Calendar

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Living Colour – Who Shot Ya? Tracklist + Lyrics

Who Shot Ya?
Regrets
This Place Hotel
Who Shot Ya? (Andre Betts Remix) ft. Black Thought, Pharaohe Monch, Chuck D, Prodigal Sunn, Kyle Mansa
Who Shot Ya? (EMD Remix) ft. Divine Styler, Niro Barnes
Who Shot Ya? (Adrian Sherwood and Matt Smyth Remix) ft. Taz

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“A Trump rally sounds like Hitler in Berlin,” G-Eazy rapped, deploying his white privilege as something more than a tool of career advancement. White Rappers, Clear of a Black Planet - The New York Times

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that was a terrible line
I could envision many black rappers using this

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...s. After the magazine’s editor said that Post Malone’s representatives had told her he was trying to distance himself from hip-hop, he replied by saying that hip-hop was just one tool in his arsenal: “I want to continue making hip-hop. I want to continue writing songs on my guitar. I want to continue to work with talented artists across any genre,” he wrote on Instagram. White Rappers, Clear of a Black Planet - The New York Times

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I would like this sentiment if it were any other artist, but I just never want to hear from Post Malone again.

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...rapping, and hip-hop and spooky electric folk, that has meant pushback on the very idea that he’s making rap music at all. His 2015 hit “White Iverson” was a hip-hop song in principle but not style — his is a genuinely postrap hybrid, building on the genre’s aesthetic and topical points and overlaying them with Bon Iver-like digital effects. White Rappers, Clear of a Black Planet - The New York Times

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Rehashed version of 2008’s “808’s is not rap!”/2009’s “Drake is not rap!”, while they both now rule the genre.

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Perhaps it’s just a coincidence that apart from one member of the opening act Mike Stud has brought with him, no other act on the bill is white. In the clips of his performance, he’s subdued, seemingly reluctant to put the fullness of his act on display in this environment, as if it wouldn’t be smiled upon in this room or were a secret in nee... White Rappers, Clear of a Black Planet - The New York Times

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Not to sound like I’m in offence mode, but perhaps this is actually the result of the lack white rappers due to hip-hop elitists not allowing them into the culture?

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...any of them operate outside the major label system, but they have booking agents, which lets them build a touring base that they can in some cases ride all the way to arenas, bypassing hip-hop clubs, the usual proving ground. White Rappers, Clear of a Black Planet - The New York Times

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“Proving ground” a/k/a “Gatekeepers” version 2. Would Stud or G-Eazy survive on of these “proving grounds”? As long as people love the music, they should. So if that’s the case, is it still important that they make it in the hip-hop inner circle?

A la la la la long.

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...d explicitly. The only time in the entire series when he looked genuinely uncomfortable was at a show in Orlando, Fla., part of a larger festival and not one of his own boisterous, inebriated crowds. “It’s a different lineup than we are used to,” his tour manager says, “and it’s not something that he particularly fits in to, but it’s something that was booked, and it’s a weird vibe, but it’s a show that we have to do.” White Rappers, Clear of a Black Planet - The New York Times

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Again, this feels like it’s about Stud’s music style rather race.

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That’s exactly what it was. The Orlando show didn’t have his usual fans and the crowd wasn’t as energized. That’s to be expected when you’re the opening act of a lineup with a different fanbase than yours. Funny how the writer wouldn’t point this out as an issue if Stud weren’t white.

Writer also failed to point out that Stud was determined to put on a good show even though it wasn’t for his fans. That’s what the manager’s quote was about… not race.

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