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Like poppa, like son: Rodney Carmichael

All Songs Considered

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How to Be a Young Black Man

"It was just like I had lived this fantasy version it's really carefree. Maybe I needed to live that but it was also a version of me that embodied a lot of what I'd learned through the music in terms of how to be a young black man and that shit didn't work in real life," he says. "I look back at the year and I just see myself acting out in ways that mirrored a lot of the models of manhood and masculinity that I had that love growing up"

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