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CrazyEyeJoe  ·  3870 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Questlove: Hip Hop Failed Black America

A fascinating essay.

I think Questlove has identified something elusive, and yet obvious once he points it out. When he says that black culture has been reduced to all being called hip-hop, it also reduced black culture to being a single-minded and simple thing, instead of being a multi-faceted and complex tapestry.

Perhaps the media has finally found a way to easily pidgeonhole, and by extension dismiss, the totality of black culture?