Rock and roll wasn’t nothing but a step away from the blues, but the whites acted like it was their brand-new bag and then had the nerve to cut most of us out when the money started rolling in. So we were like, Well, fuck it—that’s yours now, and this is mine, and don’t nobody have no business crossing lines. See, this is what I say about America—we always gotta be assigning shit, always labeling it and stuffing it in a box. Always dictating who’s allowed to own what. But end of the day, that don’t have nothing to do with the music, you dig? The music is fire and passion and soul, and however
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