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Rap Comes of Age

 

Listen to examples of rap as it enters the mainstream

Gil Scott-Heron

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (1973)

Johannesburg

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

The Message (#4 R&B, 1982)

White Lines (Don't Do It)

Collective Effort (with Chuck D)

How We Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise? (1985)

Public Enemy

Don't Believe the Hype (#18 R&B, 1988)

Fight the Power

911 is a Joke

 

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