I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.

While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop.

Their main goal is to close it down, and I know that because they don't want a black hip hop bar in Lawrence. It's a racial issue.

No one can identify the uninformed until they voice their ignorance about a topic. Silence is a fool’s best friend. Sadly, he is often too foolish to realize it.