Hip-hop has done more for racial relations than most cultural icons.… This music didn’t only influence kids from urban areas, it influenced people all around the world.… If you look at clubs and how integrated they have become—before people partied in separate clubs. There were hip-hop clubs and there were techno clubs. And now people party together and once you have people partying, dancing, and singing along to the same music, then conversations naturally happen after that. And within conversations,
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