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Don't Give a Damn

By Makkada B. Selah

Orlando Weekly | October 3, 2005

Hip-hop personas of pimps, drug dealers and thugs have become the modern-day blackface, MC Big Pooh says.

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Tags: Little Brother, The Minstrel Show, MC, Phonte

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