Episode 4 On The Hustle 2A from 2nd Lead Syndrome

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Episode 4 On The Hustle 2A

30 minutes Posted Oct 12, 2017 at 1:03 am.

Previously, on On the Hustle…

Kay’s rundown of Coolio’s three questions

2LiveCrew, hip hop censorship and white moral panic

Parental advisory apparel and aesthetics without context

What is a natural speaking voice and rap’s earlier functions, from Rapper’s Delight to Jay-Z, hip hop vocalization

Public Enemy and black nationalism, the political dimensions of hip hop

Asking about Public Enemy was a good question, but they never went beyond a textbook answer

The fly of potential in your ointment

If you don’t know now you know

We are pushing you straight into the rabbit hole

This is your history too

What are the stakes of BTS and the viewers (not) knowing the history at hand?

Hip hop is always in conversation with itself

Shaka Zulu revisited, black nationalism, Pan-Africanism, the twilight of Apartheid and global connectivity

Talking about race in ways that are not destructive

Resurgence of conscious hip hop

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In this installment of On the Hustle, our critical episode-by-episode take on BTS's American Hustle Life, we linger on the importance of Coolio's quiz questions to the BTS members: why these questions, and what can we learn about hiphop by looking more closely at them?

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