Popcast: Race and Hip-Hop, a Conversation

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

A discussion about the current wave of white rappers trying to elide conversations about race, with varying success.

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0:00.0	It's just me, myself, and I solo ride until I die, because I got me for life.
0:08.0	Yeah.
0:09.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your major league teenage girlfriend of music news and information.
0:15.0	I'm your host, Joe Coscarelli.
0:17.0	And as far as I can see, I just need privacy.
0:21.0	Plus a whole lot of tree, about this modesty,
0:23.0	I just these space
0:24.0	and do me get the world what they're trying to see.
0:26.0	A stellar max flow right beside of me,
0:28.0	a Ferrari I'm buying three,
0:30.0	a closet that St. Laurent get what I want when I want
0:32.0	because his hunger is driving me
0:33.7	yeah you just heard Geezy the West Coast own Geezy me myself and I featuring
0:41.0	BB rexa yes that, that we did. We definitely did do that. We're here with John
0:45.8	Caramonica, pop music critic of the New York Times. One thing I think we just got established
0:49.9	right off rip is we don't take L's, we make M's true that is true just if you know one thing about us.
0:56.3	John you have a piece this weekend Sunday Arts and Leisure section about white wrap.
1:01.7	What's the title of that piece? The headline says white
1:04.8	wrappers clear of a black planet. Shouts to the copy desk on that one. A beautiful
1:09.0	play on. I wish I could actually take credit for that headline but that's that's online now if you want to get at it early
1:15.3	Okay, so I've been thinking look Geezy has been popular for quite some time so is Geezy the hottest rapper in the game
1:23.0	Asteric White Edition.
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