different if all of us were listening very careful l i to, and taking seriously your work and the work of other independent artists, what would we know about race in america that is now out of the public conversation, or that we re getting wrong? i think, for the most part, with hip-hop, what s beautiful about it is for me, it s always embraced all of the races very easily, since its inception. i think that s what s beautiful about music in general. especially hip-hop. so it s a foregone conclusion that, you know, hip-hop embraces everything, embraces people in a very beautiful way. we had har i bely bell efon earlier this year, and he was talking about the hip-hop