The Gates response to these numbers reminds me of a hip-hop song Positive K recorded 18 years ago, in which a cute girl in a club keeps telling him she already has a man, and he responds.

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Just this morning I turned on my car in the driveway (the car I lent to a 17-year-old African-born youth last night so he could drive with other African-born youths to a Korean take-out chicken place called Mo Betta Wings) and an X-rated hip-hop song blasted with such explosive force from the radio that, for a second, I thought I'd been in an accident.

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The break in hip-hop is that point in the song where the lyrics fade out, the instrumental and the percussion takes center stage, and the B-boys, the break-boys or the break- girls would come on to the dance floor and their thing.

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The number one song in the land right now is by hip hop artist T.

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Among other things, the movie is a tender-dirty love song to women, who, Harvey says, have been scandalously neglected by the hip-hop performers.

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