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When I first got to Los Angeles, hip-hop music was a scary thing not only to white America but to middle-class black America.
As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio.
There was such hostility to the idea of a banjo being a black instrument. It was co-opted by this white supremacist notion that old-time music was the inheritance of white America.
It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'