<\/a>Deirdra Harris Glover
\n<\/strong>MC Contributor\/Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd these children that you spit on<\/p>\n

As they try to change their worlds<\/p>\n

Are immune to your consultations<\/p>\n

They\u2019re quite aware of what they\u2019re going through\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014David Bowie, \u201cChanges\u201d<\/p>\n

British musician and icon David Bowie released \u201cChanges\u201d in 1972, but the lyrics could easily have been written yesterday. Bowie succumbed to liver cancer Jan. 10, two days after his latest record \u201cBlackstar\u201d was released.<\/p>\n

Bowie synthesized his childhood artistic education into a multifaceted career spanning half a century. He was a shape shifter, adopting costumes and personas along with a mesmerizing stage presence.<\/p>\n

\u201cFame makes a man take things over<\/p>\n

Fame lets him loose, hard to swallow<\/p>\n

Fame puts you there where things are hollow\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014David Bowie, \u201cFame\u201d<\/p>\n

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Like many British artists, Bowie fell in love with American music typically associated with black culture, finding common ground in funk and soul. Bowie immersed in Philly soul, and entered a musical period of his life he termed \u201cplastic soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was pretty well accepted in the black community, from working with Nile Rodgers to appearing on Soul Train and performing \u2018Fame,\u2019\u201d said Violator All-Star DJ Phillip \u201cYoungVenom\u201d Rollins. Rollins owns Offbeat, a music, comics and collectibles gallery\/shop in the Midtown district in Jackson, Miss.<\/p>\n

In a 1993 interview with NBC\u2019s Bryant Gumbel, Bowie strongly asserted that black artists were the true innovators of the age. The quality and significance of the social message has moved very much to the black and Hispanic market. And that\u2019s where the new force of music is coming from said Bowie in the interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith black music, there\u2019s a very strong social point to make. There\u2019s a means of discovery and a purpose,\u201d said Bowie in the interview.<\/p>\n

The admiration appears to have been mutual: Public Enemy, Diddy, Jay-Z, Ice Cube and Dr. Dre have sampled Bowie\u2019s work. Learning of his death, Kanye West tweeted that Bowie was one of his \u201cmost important inspirations, so fearless, so creative. he (sic)\u00a0 gave us magic for a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n

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