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Let the Market Bully Hip-Hop

How do you create a socially conscious rapper? You pay him, of course.

Although Bill O’Reilly, Anderson Cooper, Oprah Winfrey and others have recently decried the coarseness of hip-hop culture, they have been short on feasible solutions. Thus we will no doubt continue to hear these songs, see these videos and worry about their social impact.

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