Cornel West Talks Rhymes And Race
November, 2007
HE SAYS ARTISTS CAN USE WORDS NEWSPAPERS CANTCornel West is a professor at Princeton and an American Book Award winner, and this summer he released his second album, Never Forget: A Journey of Revelations, which features guest appearances by Prince, Andre 3000, Rhymefest, Talib Kweli and others. We asked him about the issues of race that play a prominent role in his new songs. playboy: At its annual meeting in July, the NAACP held a mock funeral for the word nigger. Do you think symbolic gestu...
