On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Mann, Ravinder           [CCS] wrote:

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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,885354,00.html
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> "As Craig Marks points out, this partly explains its appeal to audiences
> in the rest of the world. "When you listen to a record from New York,
> you get the sense that you're listening to music made in the centre of
> the universe," he says. "When you hear records from Detroit, you get the
> sense that the people making them are desperate to get out of Detroit."
> " Could this be true...quite a few detriot dont life in detriot ? Rav

Take a listen to JayZ's "It's a Hard Knock Life" and then listen to
"Strings of Life."

What Marks is saying is popcrit bullshit.  Mark is taking the city first
then projecting images of that city onto the music.

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