Word: raps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson has fared worse than most. Black Power Apostle Stokely Carmichael calls him a "hunky," a "buffoon," and a "liar." Stokely's successor as head of the ill-named Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, H. Rap Brown, suggested that the President and Lady Bird ought to be shot. In The Accidental President, liberal Journalist Robert Sherrill described the President as "treacherous, dishonest, manic-aggressive, petty, spoiled." The outrageous play MacBird! called...
...present, he wants to remain in this country. "I'm not against America; I'm against the American philosophy." If Patrick Henry is a legitimate hero to whites, blacks have just as much right, he feels, to idolize such men as Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Muhammad Ali, and Rap Brown...
...title of a song often sends him into his rap: "Yeeaaaaaah," he sighs at the end of one cut, twirling the reverb knob, "which was Manny Nichols. 'Throw me a little Boogie.' Just keep dancing. That was like the secret to a very peaceful life--dance!--not many people are dancing anymore... Oh yes, you'll say that people are: 'Look at this place, look at that place, look at all the people who are dancing.' But in comparison to the amount of people there are, forget it (reverb), not many people are dancing (electronic noises in background) and people...
...minutes of rapping can lead him anywhere. He philosophizes, he confesses, he imitates commercials. But after a while he catches himself. "What?!?" he'll squeak, "What kind of rap is that for a freekie oldie show." And he's off into another song...
...intellectual content of Uncle T's monologues is often meager. His thoughts are not going to be passed on from generation to generation. But who cares? You don't want to listen to John Kenneth Galbraith rap between cuts of the Nashville Street Band playing "Baby Please Don't Go" and Richard Berry playing "Yamma Yamma Pretty Mamma...