Santogold too cool for hip-hop

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Santogold Pulls Race Card
Published 5/20/2008 by ill Mami at SOULBOUNCE.COM
... Santogold dubs 'hip-hop' comparisons racist [NME] [H/T: TRU]

Santogold To Critics: Please Listen To My Album Before You Try To Label It [Suggestion Box]
Published 5/20/2008 by Maura Johnston at Idolator
... Santi "Santogold" White is ruffling a few feathers by saying that people tagging her music as hip-hop and/or R & B are engaging in racist behavior, i.e. placing a genre on her music without really listening to it. Dropping the "r" word is always going to cause people to take up arms, and indeed, there are some fans of hip-hop who see this quote as Santogold turning her back on the genre. But is she dissing hip-hop and R & B, or is she fed up with lazy music categorizers who feel compelled to put every piece of music they hear into an iTunes-approved genre, and who sometimes ...