
IMPENDING CHARGES?
Velshi
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The Censorship of Hip Hop Music
Ali Velshi: Rap music has always had an uneasy relationship with the law. He says prosecutors have used rapper's lyrics and their creative expressions as evidence encases against them. The common theme between today's censorship of books and past mobilizations against hip hop is that what we're seeing today is just the latest version of an attempted suppression of black voices, he says.
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