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Posted inLiterature

Western Lit: On This 20th Anniversary of Tupac’s Death, an Important New Book Takes a Gritty Look at SoCal Hip-Hop

It’s clear that many pop-culture fanatics like for the legacies of their heroes to be scrubbed and romanticized. For proof, you needn’t look much further than most biopics and TV shows about the entertainment business, in which character flaws may occasionally factor in, but are typically eclipsed by brilliance. Cultural consumers of this revisionist mind […]

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