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The Cotton Club
Black-conscious hip-hop deals with an overwhelmingly white live audience
Dead Prez
photo: courtesy of Sony Urban Music
As the Coup (Pick a Bigger Gun), Zion-I (True and Livin'), and the Perceptionists (Black Dialogue) get set for a wave of touring to promote their new CDs this summer, the audience that will be looking back at them unmasks one of the most significant casualties of hip-hop's pop culture ascension: the shrinking Black concert audience for hardcore, political hip-hop.
"My audience has gone from being over 95 percent Black 10 years ago to over 95 percent white today," laments Boots Riley of the Coup, whose 1994 Genocide and Juice
Brother Ali
photo: courtesy of Biz 3 PublicityIt Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us BackFear of a Black Planet
the Perceptionists
photo: Maya HayukBakari Kitwana's book Why White Kids Love Hip Hop came out June 5.
The Cotton Club
Black-conscious hip-hop deals with an overwhelmingly white live audience
Dead Prez
photo: courtesy of Sony Urban Music
As the Coup (Pick a Bigger Gun), Zion-I (True and Livin'), and the Perceptionists (Black Dialogue) get set for a wave of touring to promote their new CDs this summer, the audience that will be looking back at them unmasks one of the most significant casualties of hip-hop's pop culture ascension: the shrinking Black concert audience for hardcore, political hip-hop.
"My audience has gone from being over 95 percent Black 10 years ago to over 95 percent white today," laments Boots Riley of the Coup, whose 1994 Genocide and Juice
Brother Ali
photo: courtesy of Biz 3 PublicityIt Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us BackFear of a Black Planet
the Perceptionists
photo: Maya HayukBakari Kitwana's book Why White Kids Love Hip Hop came out June 5.
