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President Obama Plus Hip Hop Plus Radio Open Source

Radio Open Source is a hot and innovative show. I was a guest on it a number of times when it was part of WGBH in Boston. Thought yall might dig this episode. h/t Dan Patterson for the link and headline

Adam Bradley is talking about the President of Flow — about how 30 years of hip-hop (”the most widely disseminated poetry in the history of the world”) laid down the rhyme-and-rhythm track for the Age of Obama. Add this to the open-source mix of Obama ingredients, along with the “black prophetic tradition” of church and civil-rights history:

via Open Source » Blog Archive » Obama & Hip Hop: The Transracial Drumbeat.

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