THE COTTON CLUB
Black-conscious hip-hop deals with an overwhelmingly white live audience
by Bakari Kitwana, THE VILLAGE VOICE

Armed with messages of Black political resistance, Black pride, and opposition to militarization and corporatization, designed in part to counter the commercial hip-hop party-and-bullshit madness dumbing down the nation's youth, hip-hop's lyrical descendants of the "fight the power" golden era today are booking concerts in record numbers—far beyond anything imaginable by their predecessors. Problem is, they can hardly find a Black face in the audience.

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