People who disagree with a message in a song either reject it and never let it touch their CD player again or create a twisted definition of the song that fits their beliefs, which no one can dispute. ... When shown the lyric "Sent me off to a foreign land, to go kill the yellow man," they were asked who they thought the "yellow man" was. ... Whether they hated communists or simply loved the United States, all young people who participated in the study created a meaning for the lyric that went along with their beliefs. ... When organizations such as the PMRC or the Christian Coalition, anot...

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And what kills me, what people don't know, is that breakin' died in 78' in the Bronx. ... That's how it happened with me. ... He went on to explain to me how Lee went on to learn how to break real good, and ended up battling and getting served by Crazy Legs, approximately two years afterBeat Street came out. ... Wiggles schooled me on the what went on behind the scenes, that resulted in the evolution of the B-boy culture on both coasts. ...

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