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What's Confidential This Month
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT...
"Hip-hop needs to find the next subject. Politics and social stuff--those are going to be the next real subjects groups get into." --George Clinton, Detroit Free Press, summer 2007
Too many in the hip hop audience accept the big lie promoted by opportunist preachers and politicians that hip-hop is only about madness and misogyny. The truth is very different. There are many, many hip-hop songs reaching millions of people which carry a message of unity, songs whose protests and promise promote a vision of a world without war, poverty, and racism. The truth here should set us free, free of false divisions between mainstream and underground, between bling bling and backpack.
Let us know what we've missed.
In This Issue:
Mainstream Hip-Hop: Filled with Positive Messages
Pete Townshend on Rap and Rock
Abe Lincoln and File Sharing
Keeping It Real on the Mississippi Delta
Cuban Music (aka "Louie Louie")
Metallica / David Mamet / Kenny Garrett / Snoop Dogg / Tim Krekel / Sun Ra
Just Exactly Why Do We Need the Music Business?
More Bullshit from Bono
Gone Too Soon: Jeff Healey, Buddy Miles, Debbie Geller, Danny Federici
CD and DVD reviews
And much more....
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Music and Healthcare
How Musicians can get Healthcare
How you can help bring about a universal Healthcare System
On November 15, 2004 Rock A Mole Productions (www.rockamole.com) of Los Angeles released Everybody In, Nobody Out, a new film on musicians and health care. more