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Article: The Black teen explosion: powerful group shapes fashion, music, movies and love.
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN youths have always been shapers and changers of American popular culture. But an electronic revolution and the emergence of an "electrosex" environment, powered by hip-hop and its offshoots, Black and White, have made Black youths catalysts of a new millennium pop culture that is changing the way we sing, dance, dress, talk and buy.
Not only in rap but also in film, fashion and love, Black youths are changing the name and shape of an addictive new climate that blends fashions, sports, music and sex, an addictive climate that powers the $164 billion youth market.
By all accounts, Black teenagers in central-city areas are the pied pipers, ...