ininevitable, i suppose, that just about the time i m becoming aware of hip-hop culture, it is literally coming of age. hip-hop has been around, i discover, for some 25 years now. and during that time it has not only established itself as america s most popular popular music, it has altered our language. the oscar goes to it s hard out here for a pimp you know what? i think it just got a little easier out here for a pimp. we re seeing hip-hop seep into everything, right? it s in soda commercials. then it s in sound tracks. it s being used as bumper music in sports and fashion and shoes and everything. i ve never done it with a machine. well, it s easy. we in the hood. we like
want this to happen but ultimately they were powerless to stop it. (vo) singing, or speaking. reason, or fun. daring, or thoughtful. sensitive, or strong. progress isn t either or progress is everything.
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nation everything s meant to be okay it was kind of like a rock opera. you had to listen to it from front to back because it told the entire story of what was going on in the decade. wake me up when september ends the fear of terrorism. the media. the wars. people being sent off to fight. here comes the rain again rock wasn t all that surprising in the 2000s. so when you got something like american idiot it was wow, this is unexpected. this is shaking things up a little bit. wake me up when september ends clusive. because we only serve those who honorably served. all ranks, all branches, and their families. are we still exclusive? absolutely. and that s exactly why you should join.
becomes numb and weirdly apolitical for a time when the country was at war. post-9/11 some believe familiar music will sell well this holiday. and i ve been wrong i ve been down to the bottom of every bottle nickelback, they had bigger hits than anybody. everybody s welcome in the nickelback club. we ve got a big club. yeah, yeah a lot of rock is not really doing what it used to do, and it s almost like it lost its will to fight. unless you re talking about green day. don t want to be an american idiot you can t undersell how shocking it was that the definitive statement on george bush s america came from green day. welcome to a new kind of tension all across the alien nation everything s meant to be okay