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The Conservative War on Hip-Hop: White Scapegoating and Black Respectability

THE BLAME GAME

Recent comments against hip-hop by jazz legend Wynton Marsalis have provided plenty of chum for the conservative media, who are always quick to blame rap music for society’s ills.

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