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<text id=92TT1876>
<title>
Aug. 24, 1992: The Right Rap
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Aug. 24, 1992 George Bush: The Fight of His Life
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<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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