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Rodney King, John Singleton On 'Uprising: Hip-hop And The L.A. Riots'
latimes.com 3 weeks, 6 days agoIn Mark Ford’s new documentary, "Uprising: Hip-Hop and the L.A. Riots," which airs tonight on VH1, the music coming out of South L.A. in the early '90s was more than just news, or what Chuck D of Pubic Enemy called the "black CNN." The explicit and furious hip-hop and gangsta rap that flowed out of that community was a warning about the riots that would erupt there on April 29, 1992. “Ironically, I was working at the real CNN at the time. I remember being baffled by the violence and not really having a fram










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