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Hip-hop takes center stage at Black New England Conference
Modern hip-hop has become so “grotesque” that Timothy “Mr.Goodbarz” Thorpe, a Massachusetts-based hip-hop musician, said he coined the term “Bringing out Playfulness” as a solution to combat the negative trajectory he feels is taking root in the genre.
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