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Black power and ‘edutainment’: The political roots of hip-hop music
From the United States to the Global South, the genre has gained broad appeal by casting a spotlight on social ills. It was 1982, and as New York was emerging from one of the worst financial crises in its history, these lyrics by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five struck a chord with listeners. The…