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Sep 20, 2013 · In an article titled “Why ‘Accidental Racist’ Is Actually Just Racist,” the critic Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote, “Paisley wants to know how he can express his southern pride. Here are some ...
- Jody Rosen
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Dec 28, 2017 · Many of the year's best challenged America's record on race, critiqued widespread cultural erasure, or broke conventions of genre, gender and identity within the space of rap itself.
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- Rodney Carmichael,Bobby Carter,Jenny Gathright,Sidney Madden,Mosi Reeves,Steffanee Wang
In the early 1990s, you might not think rappers from Atlanta had much in common with rappers from New Orleans or Miami. So when and how did "Southern hip-hop" get to be recognized as an entity?
Apr 9, 2013 · "Accidental Racist" is a collaboration with rapper LL Cool J. Brad Paisley sings of a Southern white man in a Starbucks who believes he's being judged for the Confederate battle flag on his...
Aug 30, 2022 · Prosecutors sometimes use rap lyrics to help charge artists with crimes. Critics say this is racist.
Jun 5, 2020 · Country music artists like Yola, Rhiannon Giddens, and Mickey Guyton are rewriting the genre's racist history.
Jan 22, 2021 · The former wrote hip-hop a fairy tale, “I Used to Love H.E.R.” — a song lamenting hip-hop’s direction toward commercialized gangsta rap and away from empowering, Afrocentric ideals — and when Ice...
