when i was younger, i always said that one day i was going to play all kinds of music and not be judged for the color of my skin but the quality of my work. purple rain prince had a great androgyny. he blurred the gender line. he sings, he writes, he plays. every time i see him it s just like, really? okay, i quit. when he plays guitar, it s just part of his body in a way that i ve never really seen before. and it s not contrived. it s just it s just happening. what was his music? was it r&b? his music was just straight down
it s rap for a reason. they call it a mind revolution. a rebel in his own mind rebel without a pause was heavily influenced by rakim and heavily influenced by what was just going on. it was really a desperate call to have us being heard. you talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. shouldn t you maybe be thinking about who are the people i ve got out here? haven t you got a responsibility to them rather than what you you talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. shouldn t you maybe be thinking about who are the people i ve got out here? haven t you got a responsibility to them rather than what you personally i have a responsibility to my people and my culture, because my people and my culture have been brutalized and ignored for years. my mother standing in the welfare line the way you survive is crime my life is over so i might as well speak my mind ice t is the first west coast gangster rap. reality rap. 6:00 in the morning
also some town in the midwest that will be scared to death by prince or a string of other black faces. interesting. okay. thank you very much. when are we going to see anybody of color on mtv, because you said music television. when are you going to start covering all genres of music? music has no color, and it shouldn t have color. and i don t believe in that. what i do, i don t want it labeled black or white, i want it labeled as music. 1983, motown has this big tv special, motown s 25th anniversary. at that time thriller is out and thriller is doing well. but michael jackson couldn t get billie jean on mtv. she was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene when the rest of the world was going crazy, and he can t get on mtv? michael jackson?
thank you very much. when are we going to see anybody of color on mtv, because you said music television. when are you going to start covering all genres of music? music has no color, and it shouldn t have color. i don t believe in that. i don t want it labeled black or white, i want it labeled music. 1983, motown has this big tv special, motown s 25th anniversary. at that time thriller is out and thriller is doing well. but michael jackson couldn t get billie jean on mtv. she was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene when the rest of the world was going crazy and he can t get on mtv? michael jackson? come on.
rebel without a pause was avily inflnced by rakiand heavily influence the by wt was just going on. it was really a desperate call to have us being heard. you talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. shouldn t you maybe be thinking about who are the people i ve got out here? haven t you got a responsibility to them rather than what you personally i have a responsibility to my people and my culture, because my people and my culture have been brutalized and ignored for years. my mother standing in the welfare line the way you survive this crime i might as well speak my mind ice t is the first west coast gangster rap. reality rap. 6:00 in the morning police at my door. ice t did it way before nwa did it. straight outta compton ice cube from a gang called with attitude squeeze the trigger and bodies are hauled off