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The Revolution Is Not Being Televised

  08/02/10 00:10, by , Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: curtis mayfield, freedom, gill scott heron, last poets, malcolm x, revolution, watts prophets
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois I was afraid to talk about musicians like Gill-Scott Heron. Music should be sterilized and emasculated, made safe.  Sing about sex and violence, but don’t go pointing fingers. Be about passion, but only if it… more »
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A Rose That Grew From Concrete

  07/26/10 01:05, by , Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: freedom, hip hop, last poets, lauryn hill, rap, tupac shakur, watts prophets
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois media/blogs/a/PaulB/Image112.jpg"> It has been 14 years since Tupac Shakur’s death, and ten years since The Rose That Grew from Concrete, and I don’t know what’s going on with stuff, or if other… more »
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A Road to Hip Hop

  04/05/10 00:30, by , Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: bfmn, black, blues, branford marsalis, digable planets, duke ellington, guru, hip-hop, jazz, last poets, new york, paul bourgeois, red hot _ cool, stolen moments, waok, watts prophets
Musical Musings by Paul Bourgeois I just had this discussion with one of my students, a girl from Detroit. She told me I couldn’t know much about hip-hop because I am a white Canadian, and she’s right. As GURU (Gifted Unlimited Rhymes… more »
 

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