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we werere saying n no, it s s not the m music. we r re talking g about thee actualal lyrics inin the chor. shshirley halplperin: it seemed a at the timeme that it t was too cocommon a ph. sosort of tryiying to tradadek or to copypyright whahat s u everyonene uses it.. at the timime, that wawas a vevery common n thing to s s. likeke, hate thehe playerer, not the e game. dometi p pong: so ththere s ala cultltural compoponent here e e a lot t of folks feel likike artists-s mainststream artisists likeke a taylor r swift has ththe agency t to take a little b bit of blacack cultu, use it a at her dispsposal, rex it, , and wash h her hands o t and d say, i dididn t know this is s where it c came fro. anand it mightht not eveven be happppening purprposefully o or maliciouo, bubut it does s happen. cacari champioion: in the e ey 90s and ininto the 200000 s, u had d to be edgygy. and yoyou had to b be comfortae inin your blacackness. and you u had to be e comfortae in s singing in n colloquia