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- Aug. 24, 1992: The Right Rap
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Aug. 24, 1992 George Bush: The Fight of His Life
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- PEOPLE, Page 71
- The Right Rap
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- <p>By Ginia Bellafante
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- <p> Finally, a rapper who could make even Phyllis Schlafly
- pump up the volume. Twenty-eight-year-old TRQ, ne Steve Gooden,
- is a loud and proud pro-life Republican who packs his
- rhythm-backed poetry with patriotic punch. "I love this country,
- and anybody who doesn't should get out. I agree 100% with
- everything Dan Quayle says," boasts TRQ. Not the sort of
- position that wins fans in a musical world that rings with the
- radical views of Ice-Ts and Cubes. But sometimes anomaly can get
- you places. Without a record label to his name (an MCA deal fell
- through), TRQ has managed to find a captive audience for his
- righteous rap: the Republican Convention. The G.O.P. granted him
- a gig at a party-sponsored youth rally in Houston. Can we expect
- to see TRQ resurface as a political candidate someday? "No, I
- really don't think so," says the Washington native. "I enjoy
- being a voice crying in the wilderness."
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