
Nina
Radiolab
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How Can You Be an Artist and Not Reflect the Time?
When she was performing several cities in the United States were burning because they were riots in reaction to Martin Luther King's death. She also, she has like a period where she just starts talking and she's talking about other black artists who've died. Do you realize how many we have lost? It really gets down the reality, doesn't it? Not a performance. Not microphones, no like crap. But really something else. Lost a lot of them. Like she's just, she even says, I don't know how to feel anymore. I'm just so numb. I can't afford anymore losses. Oh my God. They're shooting us down one by one. Don't forget
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