Tag: rock and roll

The Canonization of Lou Reed

All your two-bit psychiatrists are giving you electric shockthey said they’d let you live at home with mom and dadinstead of mental hospitalsbut every time you tried to read a bookyou couldn’t get to page 17’cause you forgot where you were so you couldn’t even read. Whatever the rationale for Reed’s ECT, his relationship to […]

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The Perception Toward Black Musicians Still Hasn’t Changed

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Despite Black musicians making incredible leaps and bounds over the past century, reaching the point where they’ve become some of the most respected, celebrated, famous, talented, and intellectual artists in the world, there remains a prejudice against those musicians. My Hip-Hop Story: Sway Calloway Felt […]

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