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"Privilege begins with the benefit of the doubt."

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All black, all white she can't see grey.
All black, all white she can't see shades.
Halfroon. Quadroon. Octaroon.... spades.

Hip hop don't stop for one drop rules.

She be thinking all rap is gangsta rap.
She be thinking all black is gangsta black.
Halfroon. Quadroon. Octaroon.... coons.

Hip hop don't stop for one drop rules.

Can I drop some knowledge before I drop this mic?
What's the difficulty setting in the role-playing game of your life?
See, hip-hop don't stop for one drop of one percent.
Code switching paper bag testing your way into hypodescent.
High yellowin’ low melanin mad Benjamins but still no clout.
We all fall down but who stays down for the count?
It ain't about money, that ain't all what I'm talking 'bout:
Privilege begins with the benefit of the doubt.

Hip hop don't stop for one drop rules.

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from I Don't Understand How the World Works, released January 14, 2022

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Buggy Jive Albany, New York

BUGGY JIVE is a soul rock singer-songwriter quietly uploading music from a basement somewhere in Upstate New York.

Equal parts Zeppelin and D’Angelo and Prince and Joni in sound and sensibility, his lyrics often mine the literature of the past to make sense of the present – from Ellison to Morrison to Eliot to Didion.

“Literary Kravitz,” as some say.
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