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Article: Keeping it real.(Culture)(American-African Music)
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- Sojourners Magazine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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It was way back in October 2003. Everyone was talking about the Cubs-Red Sox series that never happened. It was around the same time that U.S. deaths during the occupation of Iraq exceeded those suffered during the conquest. So the real historic event of the month may have passed you by. It was in the week of October 9 that, for the first time in history, the top 10 singles on the Billboard pop music chart were all recorded by African-American artists, nine of them rappers.
Sun Records founder Sam Phillips died the month before, so he may or may not have heard the news. And that's too bad, because the final, complete triumph of African-American music in U.S. ...