This song,"America," is a mixture of hip hop, reggae and African music.
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As the operators obliged, the new channel generated enormous excitement in black America just as hip-hop culture, with its swaggering multimillionaire entertainers and athletes, was emerging.
This carried over into the 1980s with hiphop acts such as Public Enemy protesting against the endemic racism and poverty faced by the black community in America.