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Cover: “Black music needs the black cultural critic.” — @naomisoextra“THIS!! So glad you posted this. Those of us black writers who do cultural criticism are increasingly finding fewer publications to place our work. Black music needs the black cultural critic. It’s time for a movement 🖤” — @naomisoextra“See this is Even More of The Reason Why I 🫶🏽 You! There Are No Longer Guardians of Black Music Culture That Have The Power in These Buildings to Enact Change. Cash OVER Culture. Things OVER Feeling. What Happens Next is VERY IMPORTANT to Our Supreme Creative Legacy 🔊” — @kennyburns“James Brown's "Cold Sweat" is recognized as a radical departure from pop music conventions at the time of its release. It defined a genre and formed the foundation of sampling in hip hop. It's Black innovation and it happened in a studio, among practitioners who were tapped in. Everyone had a part in creating it. Sustaining it. We need that now.” — @nettiebeatriceClosing slide: MUSIC COMMENTARY MATTERS. TheRightRights.org
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Who gets to tell our stories?

Excerpts from the comment section of Rapsody’s post on hip-hop and journalism.

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What people said

THIS!! So glad you posted this. Those of us black writers who do cultural criticism are increasingly finding fewer publications to place our work. Black music needs the black cultural critic. It’s time for a movement 🖤

@naomisoextra

See this is Even More of The Reason Why I 🫶🏽 You! There Are No Longer Guardians of Black Music Culture That Have The Power in These Buildings to Enact Change. Cash OVER Culture. Things OVER Feeling. What Happens Next is VERY IMPORTANT to Our Supreme Creative Legacy 🔊

@kennyburns

James Brown's "Cold Sweat" is recognized as a radical departure from pop music conventions at the time of its release. It defined a genre and formed the foundation of sampling in hip hop. It's Black innovation and it happened in a studio, among practitioners who were tapped in. Everyone had a part in creating it. Sustaining it. We need that now.

@nettiebeatrice