"Hip Hop, like the Negro spiritual, and like the blues represented the recorded confrontation of an oppressed African American community with a system apparently committed to its collective disenfranchisement, if not extermination. Hip Hop should be interpreted exactly as blues chronicler Larry Neal wrote concerning the blues in 1971 'They [the blues]' writes Neal "are about survival on the meanest, most gut level of human existence. They are therefore, lyrical responses to the facts of life.”
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