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[W]ho were amongst the first to reach the rap music charts? So to speak, The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron, are said to be the first ever rappers with their compositions and performances dating as far back as the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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The OG rappers fit Gramsci's definition of organic intellectuals because they are members of a community of oppressed people and music is the instrument they utilize to speak of their common oppression socially, politically and economically. Ice Cube says, "People sometimes act as if [I'm] making up the stuff [I] talk about in my music . . . that [I'm] trying to be controversial and shocking, . . . but [my music] is ... real . . . the language of the neighborhood" (Ice Cube in Alonso, 1991, pp. 11-12).
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[W]hen rap music comes along with songs from N.W.A. that spoke of “trading oral sex for crack” (Samuels, 276) and Dr. Dre, whose “Chronic: 2001” CD cover has a large picture of a marijuana leaf on it, white suburbans buy the records to become a dealer or user without coming in contact with drugs.
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