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“I think it’s subconscious, because the times I’ve talked to rappers, I don’t know how much they know about that era. It’s not just them, either. A lot of modern rock & roll musicians don’t know a lot about that era, either. I talked to Pee Wee Herman one time and he said, ‘I wasn’t that big of a fan of Charlie Chaplin.’ I assumed he would be. But I do think that Lil Wayne is telling very much a similar story as someone like Tommy Johnson, you know? ‘I asked her for water, she gave me gasoline’ – that’s not much different than talking about purple drank, you know?”
– Jack White on rap and the blues
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