Hip Hop offers new ways of seeing and understanding what it means to be black at this pivotal time in history.
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It's a case that had everything, ... There's multiple murders, there's a famous former football player who had become an actor, there are drugs, there's sex, there's violence, there's interracial marriage.Todd Boyd
He's a Chicago guy, explosive to the basket. He has a certain style the way he does things. At this point, though, it's not about being the best basketball player. As great a player as Tim Duncan is, he's not going to sell any shoes. He doesn't have that persona. It's about standing above the crowd. Just being a good guy and clean-cut guy is not going to do it.
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The people we've played so far this year have been very, very tough teams. We had some aspirations of what we could do this year as far as making the playoffs, and now we're going into our league. It's just been critical breakdowns at crucial times that have hurt us and we've had a little bit of bad luck on a couple of occasions.
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The new-school hip-hop generation exists with a mandate to 'keep it real' this has to do with embracing a hard-nosed truth about the world and letting the chips fall where they may.
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Frankly I love the word 'nigga.' It is my favorite word in the English language because no other word incites more controversy today.
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