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Among young ethnic minorities, hip-hop is perhaps the most popular medium for challenging the twin burdens of entrenched injustice and pervasive privilege.

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“I’m very very very very conscious of whether I’m staying hard.”

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3. Against Me!

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Welcome to the best medical musical advice you’ll read on the internet today.

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George Clinton discovered LSD and unto the snobs, he bestowed interplanetary funk.

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A man standing in his saddle in the half-lit half-alive dawn banged on the shutters and called two names. He was just a hat and a cloak levitating in the grey plume of his own breath, but when he called we came. That much is certain — we came.

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The Pitchfork Music Festival will kick into gear Friday afternoon at Chicago’s Union Park. Now in its sixth year, the three-day event has come to mirror the cultural omnipresence of the music-critique site it’s named after.