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Little Richard, Plus Why We Stop Listening to New Music As We Age

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The Importance of Appropriation

The song is just, you don't have to know what the lyrics are to know what it's about, right? Not at all. I think once you move past WAPOP, a lube op, and really sit with the lyrics, you're like, oh, there's something else going on. You've got to code this a little bit in order to get it played. But Papoon sold a lot of copies of Tootie Fruity. More than Richard, I know. It was an industry that did not value black cultural product. And then by obliterating them and their copyright of what they've created, they can't make money off of it. So

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