Gen X folk, and maybe the younger members of the Baby Boomer crew, remember that when hip-hop was born, it was attacked by everybody. Whitefolk en masse considered it trash, but so too did a lot of Blackfolk.

Many believed hip-hop would be a fad that would disappear from the music scene as quickly and mysteriously as it appeared. For years, several Black R&B radio stations, Houston’s Majic 102.1 FM included, literally promoted themselves as stations free of “rap.” Now, you can’t turn on “Majic” without hearing hip-hop from sun up to sun down.

Some of y’all may recall there were entire movements in the hallowed halls of Congress, and even first ladies and second ladies and candidates for all levels of public office leading campaigns to villainize and criminalize not only certain hip-hop s

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