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The Revolution Is Not Being Televised
08/02/10 00:10, by paul.bourgeois, 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 »
A Rose That Grew From Concrete
07/26/10 01:05, by paul.bourgeois, 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
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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 »
A Road to Hip Hop
04/05/10 00:30, by paul.bourgeois, 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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