Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. (David Foster Wallace)

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

David Foster Wallace

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