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Episode 102: Venkatesh Rao

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The Drug of Choice in Hip Hop

i think you will find a version of this no matter where you look in music culture. I got to think that the chemicals have something to do with it, absolutely. One part of it is the impact of islamic culture and how that affected northindian music. But also, i wonder, coffee, kind of mad iteferon retimean. Jut ar shewing up in gonotic music. And contemporary hippop andthe the rapping is much slower, and they don't say much either. It's very much this kind of languorous pace and languorous feel to it.

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