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This Is Karen Hunter

S E1081: A Karen Hunter Rant: Karen Breaks Down Country Music

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Karen breaks down the origins of country music and the racism that wants to keep blacks out of the genre they invented.

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub.

0:17.5

So there was a country music award which I didn't talk about because it's not my thing

0:28.0

y'all know I'm not in the jazz I know I'm relatively very narrow and limited in my taste and music. We're going to get some gospel in there and we definitely going to do some 90s and 2000s R&B and

0:32.4

hip-hop and that's basically I love I love you know slow music

0:38.2

but that's about it I'm into that dirty backpack you know that the Erica the Jill's the India Irene to that

0:45.0

genre that that's it's a dirty back pack you know the music soul child I love that that genre but that's it so

0:50.3

so and this is my taste I'm okay with it and I don't feel any need or desire. I can appreciate other music.

0:59.0

I know that other music is good, but it's all music, right right I don't even get caught up in the

1:04.5

category so I you may find in my playlist a bet mittler tune you gonna find some

1:09.4

Atlanta Morris Morris you gonna find a whole bunch of some Kenny G is going to be in my playlist.

1:14.1

You can be like, what is this?

1:15.7

And I know, I know I got all the Kenny G in there as well.

1:19.4

You know, if I'm driving, I'm going to like that. That said the Country Music Awards had quite a few people of color.

1:29.2

When I say people black people were there. Black people were there but they're black people. I just played some Mickey

1:34.7

Guyton. She was nominated for four country music awards, excuse me, Grammys. Did

1:40.8

Little Naus X not win a Grammy or something in the country section?

1:44.7

Yes, that old town road was a country music song,

1:48.1

had Billy Ray Cyrus and some Yodeling kid and a whole bunch of other people on the remix but yeah that was a country music song which kind of to me

1:57.0

Expose country music for the lie that it is if little Nas X is country right because really, y'all just, y'all thieves is what you are, but I'm going

2:06.4

get into that in a second, I'm going to the thievery and the mis-education and the misinformation

2:11.6

with this dude Holly, but I'm a play and this is

2:14.5

trigger alert this guy is offensive on purpose

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