Searching for Sugarman

I don’t watch a lot of movies, but this one is fantastic. Searching for Sugarman is a story about a musician named Sixto Rodriguez who recorded two albums

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From Eazy-E to Jay-Z: Rap as Poetry

The first rap song I ever heard was Eazy-E’s Nobody Move, a song about the disgust a man feels when he discovers he’s attempting to rape a transvestite

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On the dangers of listening to Dylan on the train

When I was 16 I read Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States. I was still in High School. It effectively ruined any chance I had of

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