
Donald Trump and the History of Hip Hop
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Grandmaster Flash - The Disco Derby
i was bon to promised hiy wouldn't. But close to the the seventies, you see song grandmaster flash them the message 19 79. What you see in the lyrics is a desire to realistically reflect the bleakness of the reality that's being faced by the people making it. And i think grandmaster flash 19 79, it happens the same year that disco collapses. That would have been what early 19 seventys rapping would have been like.
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