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I'm done growing as a person." Like, they're sort of fine and they shut down.

You mention you got into a debate. [Laughs.]

Bakari

Yeah, you can't be wrong anymore.

David

What I see in videogames a lot -- basically, what people are saying is, "As a bigot, you are offending me.

So, like, in the earlier days of hip-hop it was how many record sales.

David

Yeah.

Bakari

And now, with people listening to and sharing music in so many different ways that are trackable and some that just aren't -- and so I think it's difficult. But yeah, I could see that.

David

[Laughs.]

Bakari

[Laughs.]

David

Can you talk a little bit about that?

Bakari

Yeah.

David

I think there are some parallels there in games, but maybe not split along racial lines.

Bakari

Right.

Perhaps Paradise Gray aka “Paradise the Architect” of the X-Clan is a better person to ask than me. And what they didn't do was they didn't track demographic data. It's just different. I can help you to create a study and we should do a study where you really know who's buying this music.”

They didn't want to do the study.

I worked as an editor of The Source for about four years, '95 to '99.

bakari kitwana biography of rory

There was an attempt by a woman named Wendy Day. Wendy Day, a long-time early pioneer around hip-hop advocacy. So it's not like the mainstream media is not gonna cover you if you have a radical message. [Laughs.]

David

Well, there's something about it where there's a lack of curiosity about other cultures and subcultures.

Also, Lisa Fager Bediako started an organization called Industry Ears that looked at some of these same issues. I can't remember what her name was. By the time, I finished undergrad and graduate school the need for our generation to be the ones who set the tone for documenting the hip-hop journey was clear to me. And you have to know the people you're working with.

These variables must be present in a future hip-hop of meaning.

Copyright © AAIHS. He's still doing hip-hop, performing, he just had music come out recently. Yeah, well, it's very much alive and well. And that's what we saw their mission as: How do we promote and advance the lifestyle of hip-hop beyond just it's an artist, you go to the concert, you buy the music.