Economically, the most successful music coming out of New Orleans today is rap and hip hop.

Here’s a video about post-levee failure New Orleans by a rapper named Juvenile. Though he has a high profile, this particular track got no airplay on radio and the video was for all practical purposes banned from MTV etc.

I wonder why…


 

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Second Line Drumming New Orleans

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