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I protested the Grammy's in 1989

Nothing Compares

I protested the Grammys in 1989 because they refused to recognize rap music and hip hop...

Nothing Compares • 2022

Chuck D: I protested the Grammys in 1989 because they refused to recognize rap music and hip hop as a legitimate musical category. I thought it was like admirable when she put the Public Enemy logo on her head. With Sinéad O'Connor you didn't get the sense that she was being pretentious, that she was fake. It was like, yeah, she's seriously has issues with this. This is what's going to drive her artistry. She's committed to that

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I protested the Grammy's in 1989

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because they refused to recognize

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rap music and hip hop

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as a legitimate musical category

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I thought it was like admirable

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when she put the Public Enemy logo on her head

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With Sin ad O'Connor you didn't get the sense

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that she was just being pretentious

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that she was fake

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It was like yeah

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she seriously has issues with this

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This is what's going to drive her artistry

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she's committed to that

Duration

32 seconds

Views

20

Timestamp in Movie

00:41:11

Uploaded

Apr 30, 2024

Genres

documentary, music

Production

Tara Films,Ard Mhacha Productions,Field of Vision

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Movie Summary

Following the career of singer Sinéad O'Connor through her rise to fame and how her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream.