But it's not something where they're doing it to copy black American culture.

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Once the fashion magazines began putting celebrities on the cover, that was the end of the black fashion morale because there are very few celebrities of African-American culture that they feel or they deem, you know, important enough to put on the cover.

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What about young Afro-Brazilians, do they aspire to be Americanized or are - you know, since Brazil has such a rich culture heritage, do they keep their distance from the black American tradition?

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It was a major growth moment for me as an artist because, you know, I'm committed to my mission of using hip-hop to - as a tool for social change and using hip-hop as a way to spread information, correct information about the music and the culture and about me as an American and me as a black American woman, and going to Indonesia was an intense experience.

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