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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.]
Yeah, you can't be wrong anymore.
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.
Yeah.
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.
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Can you talk a little bit about that?
Yeah.
I think there are some parallels there in games, but maybe not split along racial lines.
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.
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.]
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.