Like my elders, hip-hoppers born before the mid-1970s, I cringe at the gratuitous money-hungry, violent, misogynistic and lackluster turn of some of the music.
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They actually talk about what's happening, and I could totally relate to everything that black hip-hoppers talk about when they talk about their struggle in America.
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Hammer were the only named hip-hoppers to attend the funeral.