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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Roots Of Hip-Hop

by M. Bouffant     at 12:31
Labels: Book Report, Channeling, Entropy, Free Speech Isn't Free, Glibertarianism, Got to Be Free, Inertia, Oddities and Artifacts, Show Biz Lice, The Dialectic, They Call It Music, Un-American Activities, Why Bother?

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