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Rap Pioneer Kurtis Blow on Blackface Controversy

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Rap icon Kurtis Blow has chimed in on the ongoing ‘blackface’ controversy, most recently,  Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring’s admission that in the 1980, as a 19-year old college student, he chose to honor the rap legend by wearing blackface.   Herring says it was for a party where fellow students dressed as artists they liked.   He says he dressed up as the rapper wearing a “wig and brown makeup,” to perform Blow’s songs.

Now, an ordained minister, Blow tells TMZ that even though Herring was a fan, what he did by wearing blackface was a “disgrace.”  And, he gave props to late night talk host Jimmy Fallon for not donning blackface when he performed one of his songs on the Tonight Show … Watch

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