The Science of Hip Hop with GZA (Part 2)

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🗓️ 28 July 2013

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The role of science in hip hop culture is the theme that runs through the conclusion of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s interview with rapper GZA, with hip hop expert Prof. Chris Emdin.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:12.2	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.9	Welcome to Star Talk Radio, I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, National Physician,
0:20.3	University of America, University of America, University of History, here at UNC, you can buy
0:23.7	check it out when you're in town.
0:25.3	I got with me the only Chuck Nice.
0:28.3	Thank God, the truth is only one and only.
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1:44.7	because they take your belt right but the students don't know that so they don't realize that they pants are hanging low because in prison you know you don't have a belt so you can't kill yourself pretty much and so that's why you're paying for others right but you don't know that they just look at they just see the look of it and then beyond that also you know what I'm sorry I maybe I just never paid attention yeah to the buttocks of prisoners but you haven't been to the right prison
2:08.9	there and but you know that's the great point I'm just saying so had I paid attention you're saying I would have noticed that they don't wear a belt they don't wear a belt they don't wear jeans right and no many prisons and so the pants just have to hang where they do right and beyond that also be beyond not that having to build it so it's sort of in prison culture it's also a sign so other inmates that you are available who right with the pants that they know but the thing is that the young people aren't they don't they don't know the sort of your nuances of where that that
2:38.8	The prison nuance.
2:39.8	Right.
2:40.8	The prison nuance.
2:41.8	They just see what it looks like.
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