Roland Fryer
speaker
253 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 4 Feb
Roland Fryer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Somebody help me.
But no, y'all don't hear me though.
I guess I'll be another victim of the ghetto.
Now,
That would score high on profanity and violence.
But in that moment, it scored high on comfort.
And so the question I've asked myself for more than a decade is, does this actually help or does it hurt?
We have places where hip-hop went before it went to other places.
And because of those radio frequencies I talked about, I can actually see in the data there are kids who have very similar backgrounds, live in similar homes, have similar parents.
One is exposed to some type of lyrics, and another is exposed to another.
And we can relate those, and we do, to 40 different variables that measure social and economic progress.
Things like teen pregnancy,
Things like unemployment, income, crime.
On every dimension, all 40 of them, we find zero evidence that hip-hop has a negative effect on any outcomes.
And what you see is a statistically no relationship, but if anything, slightly downward sloping, which means exposure to hip-hop made things, if anything, better, not worse.
And I know some of you are thinking, what about the lyrics?
I've got two daughters I adore.
We listen to hip-hop, but not Master P. What about those lyrics?
Blaming hip hop for its unvarnished truths is like faulting a photograph for the subject matter.
I was told my entire life that hip hop causes inequality.
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