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Thread started 06/15/19 6:37am

mikemike13

It’s Like That: The Makings of a Hip-Hop Writer

Hip-hop was a different kind of music that needed a different kind of writer to cover it. This is how Michael A. Gonzales came of age in the 1980s when he began his career as a music journalist.


https://longreads.com/201...hop-writer

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Reply #1 posted 06/15/19 10:33am

KoolEaze

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Interesting but long read.

I´ve bookmarked it for later after reading a couple of paragraphs. lol

Thanks for posting this.

" I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?"
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Reply #2 posted 06/25/19 5:52pm

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A good place to hear about early hip hop is the Youtube channel The Foundation

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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