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E-Z Rollers - Retro (Retro/Subtropic, Moving Shadow, 1997)
“It’s sad… In the 20th century, in the 1990’s we have to still go the same bullshit route that other artists have had to go to get acceptance. Black artists, because we are not entertaining bouffant idiots, we have to go someplace else to be accepted, and that’s absolute bullshit. If it wasn’t for the independents, if it wasn’t for the small little dinky little cities, and the few little ghetto black guys trying to make music it would have never happened. As quiet as it’s kept, some of these guys will never make a dime. Some of these guys will be poor and die alone. But in the process, they’ve been the true renegades. And the true rebels always walk alone anyway.”
— Derrick May (Dancing in the Street [ep. 9 on YouTube], BBC, 1995)
