Steve Stoute: How Hip-Hop Has Improved Race Relations

Steve Stoute: How Hip-Hop Has Improved Race Relations: "Steve Stoute found startling evidence of the global influence of hip-hop in the mountaintop town of Èze in southern France. On the square of a village that boasts thousands of years of history, he saw a jewelry store named Bling. "Lil Wayne invented the word 'bling'," says Stoute, who has been an innovator in bringing hip-hop culture and commerce together, and is the author of The Tanning of America: How Hip-Hop Created a Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy."

THE TANNING OF AMERICA

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