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Old 04-15-2016, 11:32 AM   #1 (permalink)
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What I was saying was that I don't see how being overshadowed by white people has anything to do with the opinion that black people were better at rock and roll.
It's not about black people being better at it due to genetic superiority or whatever, but black artists were just putting out better rock music in general during the fifties. But then whitey caught up, just like how it took time for whitey to catch up to black rappers.
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