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There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
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I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural.
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