Matthew R. Morris

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250 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 6 Feb

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Audiobook Café · Black Boys Like Me: In Conversation with by Matthew R. Morris · 6 Feb 2026 podcast

But I could also go back to that same mall and maybe get a cubic zirconia set of earrings or maybe a silver-plated chain.

And that idea of how hip-hop culture is so... At this point, we look now, it's...

It's almost ubiquitous in terms of what it means to culture globally, but when it was evolving or in its formative stages of evolving, it was so impressionable for Black boys like me.

It informed the ways in which we thought and the ways in which we moved.

yeah i was i was gonna use that word right like it's on one hand they're speaking to they're clearly not perfect hip-hop music is is not perfect and i'm not i'm not sitting here and absolving hip-hop music for some of its deeply problematic stances that it has promoted over decades but when you think about the ways in which it was influential to to black culture and specifically

to young Black males who perhaps

in the same sense that other consumers were listening to it, were in a way just absorbing it in a vicarious way.

Just because I listened to Nas or Jay-Z talking about selling drugs didn't make me want to go out to the corner of my street and start crack cocaine.

It's very nuanced and complicated.

I think it was just another offering of what

Yeah, exactly.

There's that difference there, right?

And even with these forums, right, like video games or hip hop music, there's a fluidity to it too, right?

Like the same way.

Someone's playing GTA.

They're probably also playing these other games that it's a different form.

Like I'm going to listen to Jay-Z, but I also might turn on like Mariah Carey or like Common or some different form of the music or the different form of the art that is going to also inform me in a different way.

Yeah, wow.

You know, the sentiment behind that is...

Again, we were given permission to enact the part, to look like the rappers that rapped about these things while not necessarily doing these things.

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