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David Bowie Had This To Say About Hip Hop in 1993, and His Words Ring Truer Now Than Ever Before

David Bowie expressed his thoughts on hip-hop as an expression of social messages.

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David Bowie had a long legacy of being a creative chameleon, slipping in and out of different identities like coats. His entire career was like that. So it’s safe to say he constantly had his finger on the pulse of what was going on in the creative world.

During a 1993 interview, host Bryant Gumbel brought up Bowie’s comment that the artists making some of the most creative moves were rappers. But that wasn’t the entire theory. Bowie elaborated more on what he saw as a shift of social causes in music.

“I think that the white generation have come of age, in fact,........

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