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2. 46 years later, a painfully timely Richard Pryor routine becomes a viral Spotify hit

Reply to BigmanPigman (Original post)

Fri Jun 5, 2020, 11:40 PM

Jun 2020

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-06-05/richard-pryor-spotify-viral-50

It doesn’t have a catchy melody or a beat to inspire some new online dance challenge. But there it was Friday morning at No. 8 on Spotify’s U.S. Viral 50 chart: “N— vs. the Police” by Richard Pryor, from the late comedy legend’s Grammy-winning 1974 album “That N—’s Crazy.”

The classic bit has Pryor riffing on the routine mistreatment black Americans face by police — and on the widespread disbelief among white Americans that such mistreatment takes place.

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Chris Rock-How not to get your ass kicked by the police! [View all] BigmanPigman Jun 2020 OP

Seems like blaiming the victim here Miguelito Loveless Jun 2020 #1

46 years later, a painfully timely Richard Pryor routine becomes a viral Spotify hit Marcuse Jun 2020 #2