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This Rock God Says Rappers Are The New Rockstars · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Multiple rappers have had
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Speaker 1: a hit songs called rock Star over the past few years.
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Speaker 1: Post Malone and twenty one Savage teamed up for their
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Speaker 1: rock Star Ineen, then De Baby and Roddy Rich did
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Speaker 1: it last year. Both songs helped make the case that
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Speaker 1: rappers actually are the new rock stars of this era,
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Speaker 1: and one of the most legendary rock stars of all
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Speaker 1: time doesn't necessarily disagree. Loudwire Knights asked Motley Cruz, legendary
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Speaker 1: Bassis and primary songwriter Nikki's six If rappers are now
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Speaker 1: the biggest rock stars even if they don't make rock,
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Speaker 1: and for Nikki, it's more about attitude of motivation than genre.
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Speaker 1: He says, I think whoever has got the guts to
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Speaker 1: stand up and not be vanilla are the rockers. That's
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Speaker 1: what rock and roll is all about, not conforming, He says,
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Speaker 1: I hate vanilla music, and I can't stand when artists
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Speaker 1: conform for financial reasons. So anytime you have an artist,
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Speaker 1: I don't care what genre it is, pushing the envelope,
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Speaker 1: I find it really exciting because they're taking a chance.
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Speaker 1: Nikki's new autobiraphy is about his Childhood, the first twenty
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Speaker 1: one tom Now that's direct from Hollywood,