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I've been working on this new podcast called Being Black, The 80s, where I talk about great music from the 80s

and the political issues that those songs are relating to. I want you to check it out.

Here's one episode. The 80s were shaped by crack

dealers doing evil things. We have murders two blocks away from the White

House. That's Alpo, 80th Street legend speaking from prison to Feds magazine years ago.

When we killed this big plug deal in DC, it was such a big deal. That was such a big thing. This female started running her mouth about a situation that she didn't really know nothing about. And my man got so upset at that that he just said you know what he got to go she

talking too much but they were a major influence on hip-hop because in America we

love gangsters there's something quintessentially American about the glorification of

gangster. My name is Nelson George and I was the executive producer of American

gangster on BT. There's something about us as a nation that we we have our official values and then we have

our real values. Our official values include chastising drug dealers but our

real values include lionizing the...

We know they're evil, we know they're hurting the community.

We know they're murdering people and ruining lives, but at the same time, many of us are in awe of their outlaw status, their success at evading the law, their propensity for violence, their power in the shadowy underworld. the

power in the shadowy underworld.

The leaders of the underworld

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