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Daughter of Singer James Brown Believes There Would Be No Hip-Hop Without Her Father
In an interview published by People on Monday (Feb. 19), the legendary James Brown's daughter, Dr. Deanna Brown Thomas, joined her sister Dr. Yamma Brown to discuss James Brown: Say it Loud, A&E's new documentary series about their father. On the subject of hip-hop culture, Deanna is of the belief that there would not be any rap music if it were not for James Brown's music.
"There would be no hip-hop," Dr. Deanna Brown tells People in the exclusive interview. "There would be no rap because he's [James Brown] the most-sampled artist. There would be no Michael [Jackson], there would be no Usher, there'd be no Chris Brown—all these people who took from him."
Deanna adds: "I mean where would it be? You could ask a lot of these musicians, they'll tell you the same thing. It would probably be zero. I think LL [Cool J] says that in the documentary that the trajectory of music would be—he can't even imagine where it would be without James Brown."
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