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Rap Actually Comes Out Of Punk Rock, Not Black Music.

Your Ethnic Or Sexual Identity, What Region Of The Country You're From, What Your Class Is - Those Aspects Of Your Identity Are Not The Same As Your Aesthetic Identity.

Popular Culture Tells You That Schools And Parents Don't Know What's Going On, The Police Are Dogs, Politicians Are All Liars And Scum, And Any Crime That's Not Committed By The Mafia Is Done By The Cia.

Under Popular Culture's Obsession With A Naive Inclusion, Everything Is O.k.

I Also Wanted To Do Something That I Hadn't Really Seen In Almost Any Black Novels, Which Was A Complex Love Story In Which Both People Were Extremely Intelligent And Talented And Understood A Lot Of Things And Were Still At Odds Getting It Together.