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...from poverty. Hip-hop has documented all of this, and more. As Amiri Baraka (n? LeRoi Jones) stated in "Blues People" (perhaps the most important book on Black music ever written), you can always tell where a people are at by the music they make. That means if you listen to Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?" or Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" or Fela Kuti's "B.B.C.: Big Blind Country" you can gather what is going on with Black people at various times and in various parts of the world. Hip-hop is no different. It has evolved...
...That said, hip-hop has always been Black America's CNN. That has never changed. CNN shows all kinds of news, not just "positive" stuff, and that is the same for hip-hop. And hip-hop has never stopped bearing witness. Listen, for example, to Nelly's album very closely. I have been to St. Louis several times, but his album gives the close listener, via the lyrics and the accents and the attitudes, an inside look at Black working-class St. Louis. If that is not bearing witness, I don't know what bearing witness...
...many people don't believe that slavery still exists in Sudan," Bok said. "But when we have a witness like him, people will listen...
...election battle next May--if then. Nonetheless, Iranian and U.S. officials told TIME that last week's exchanges signaled improved mutual understanding. "We hold no fundamental animosity," explained a senior U.S. official. Commented Annan aide GIANDOMENICO PICCO: "What both sides are saying is, 'We are able to listen...
...accompanying sound track. And decades later, car-radio playings of specific songs, good or bad, can be as acute a prod to sweet or rueful memory as Proust's tea cake. For Cameron Crowe, the pastry was named Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Poco. And Crowe didn't just listen to them. He interviewed them...