#242 Why Bushwick Bill Matters w/ Charles Hughes
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
You might know Bushwick Bill as a member of the iconic Houston rap group The Geto Boys, but his contributions to rap music, his role in the debates over free speech in the 1990s, and his overall influence are far more substantial than you probably realize. In this episode, we welcome Charles Hughes back to the show to discuss his new book Why Bushwick Bill Matters (Univ. of Texas Press) and to get a better understanding of the challenges and triumphs that shaped one of rap history's most influential artists.
Dr. Charles Hughes is the Director of the Lynne and Henry Turley Memphis Center at Rhodes College. His previous books include Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South which Rolling Stone named one of the Best Music Books of 2015. You can hear our previous conversation with Charles in episode #25 The History of Country and Soul Music in the American South w/ Charles Hughes. You can follow Charles on twitter at @CharlesLHughes2.
This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.
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| 0:00.0 | I enjoy a good round of golf. |
| 0:07.0 | My grandfather was a great golfer, but it never caught on with me when I was a child. |
| 0:11.0 | So I picked up the sport a few years ago. |
| 0:13.0 | I threw my clubs in the bus, and I play as often as I can when I'm out on tour. |
| 0:18.0 | One thing I've come to appreciate is a great fitting, great looking polo shirt at the |
| 0:22.6 | right price. After trying a few different brands, I came across cricket that spelled C-R-I-Q-U-E-T. |
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| 0:35.1 | top-of-the-line fabrics. My personal favorite is the top shelf player's shirt. |
| 0:39.8 | It's got a four-button placket hard collar with removable collar stays. It reminds me of the |
| 0:44.9 | shirts my grandfather used to wear. I feel as good wearing a cricket shirt on stage or a night |
| 0:50.3 | out with my family as I do on the golf course. Go to cricket shirts.com. |
| 0:55.7 | That's spelled C-R-I-Q-U-E-T-Sirts.com. |
| 1:00.0 | Put in the discount code Road to Now for 20% off your first order. |
| 1:04.3 | You're going to dig these shirts. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Bob Crawford. |
| 1:08.4 | I'm Ben Sawyer. |
| 1:09.9 | And this is The Road to Now, and today The Road to Now returns us to Memphis. |
| 1:15.8 | Not really, virtually to Memphis, where we're with our old friend, Dr. Charles Hughes, who is the director of the Lynn and Henry Turley Memphis Center at Rhodes College. His new book, |
| 1:29.7 | Why Bushwick Bill Matters. Charles, welcome. Thanks so much. It is so great to be back |
| 1:37.2 | with you guys. We're so excited to have you, excited to see that you had a new book so we could have |
| 1:41.9 | you. Yeah, totally. Although we've been thinking |
| 1:44.7 | about some wrestling topics we'd like to have you. Oh, well, hey, I'm always up for that. Well, the story of Sputton and we wrote that I tell everybody came from the first time we talked. Oh, yeah. How cool. Yeah. For those you guys who don't remember, I think it's like episode 26. Like Bob and I met up in Memphis and we were like, |
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