Is Hip-Hop in Seattle Being White-Washed?

David C. Wong
Seattle Weekly | February 23, 2009
Just like electric blues, hip-hop reaches a vastly broader, and whiter, audience than ever before. The difference in Seattle is that some of the most recognizable figures are by and large non-black, a fact that makes rappers like Silas Blak concerned.

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