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2912383, my take
Posted by Dr Claw, Sat Dec-13-14 01:17 AM
because I agree with what I *think* KAP Dogg is saying here...

in those eras especially, where a sort of "overt" blackness was suppressed in the mainstream of America (segregationist 1950s, and the 1950s fetishism that ran rampant in the Reagan era), daring to be black w/o looking over your shoulder was the same as raising your closed fist to the sky.

While all "boogie" music then (and especially now) wasn't made by Black people per se, that musical form is certainly "Black", and choosing that path in that era definitely was defiant IMO.

it's kind of like what you've said about being against MTV and "the other side of the radio" back in the '80s...