Straight Outta Chevy Chase

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WNYC Studios

Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 April 2014

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

From boom bap to EDM, we look at the line between hip-hop and not, and meet a defender of the genre that makes you question... who's in and who's out.

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0:00.0	Oh, wait, you're listening.
0:02.6	Okay.
0:03.9	All right.
0:05.1	Okay.
0:06.5	All right.
0:08.0	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:10.9	Radio Lab.
0:11.5	Shorts.
0:13.0	From W. N. Y.
0:15.3	C.
0:16.2	See?
0:16.5	Yes.
0:18.0	And NPR.
0:20.4	Hey, I'm Chad Abumrod. I'm Robert Kwitch. This is Radio Lab. The podcast. Okay, so Robert, here's a question that I've been puzzling over for a long time. All right. Okay. What is the fruitiest fruit that you know? My fridious fruit is a plum. Well, no. I mean, that's yours. I don't want to take that away from you.
0:38.2	No, you shouldn't. But when you ask most people that question, they say apple or orange.
0:43.5	No, I mean, it's true. Scientists have figured out that when you make a category in your mind, you're not doing it based on like a set list of traits.
0:51.2	You're like, what you do is you call to mind the prototypical example of that category,
0:57.8	and then you measure this new thing against it.
0:59.9	And for fruits, prototype is the gala apple, if you ask me, the red, shiny, waxy apple.
1:05.4	You say there's somebody who's decided that an apple is the fruity fruit?
1:08.9	They've done experiments.
1:10.0	Oh, they've done experiments. They've done experiments. Oh, they've done experiments.
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