Clipping from an interview with Damon Prince on the Black Cultural Center
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Clipping from an interview with Damon Prince on the Black Cultural Center
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Clip of an interview of Damon Prince conducted by Joshua Egwuatu on January 12, 2021. Prince describes the Black Cultural Center as a headquarters for students.
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Damon Prince: The BCC was a place where everybody hung up. So, at the time, you know, if you didn't have a TV or whatever in your dorm room, or you didn't--I believe they had cable for you, but you didn't have like BET. We went to the BCC. That was when BET used to play videos. And so like all the newest music, Rap City, you know, the 106 in Part, we used to run over to the BCC and watch that. So, you'd have 20-30 people crammed into the BCC trying to watch you know Rap City. And then of course you got six or seven dudes who think that they can freestyle. I’m like “naw, let me watch the video, shush.” So, you know that that's what it was. It was our, it was our headquarters. It was in our headquarters. You know, “hey, I, I need a, I need to get a homework assignment, this is that and the other.” “Oh, well just meet me at the BCC.” Because, you know, you go to the library, “where are you going to be? Upstairs, downstairs?” “I’m going to be downstairs.” “Where? Media center?” “Naw, naw, not the media center.” “Just meet me in the BCC, man, I'll get it over there.” So it was, it was, it was like our headquarters. It was, it was where life happened for us.
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Damon Prince: The BCC was a place where everybody hung up. So, at the time, you know, if you didn't have a TV or whatever in your dorm room, or you didn't--I believe they had cable for you, but you didn't have like BET. We went to the BCC. That was when BET used to play videos. And so like all the newest music, Rap City, you know, the 106 in Part, we used to run over to the BCC and watch that. So, you'd have 20-30 people crammed into the BCC trying to watch you know Rap City. And then of course you got six or seven dudes who think that they can freestyle. I’m like “naw, let me watch the video, shush.” So, you know that that's what it was. It was our, it was our headquarters. It was in our headquarters. You know, “hey, I, I need a, I need to get a homework assignment, this is that and the other.” “Oh, well just meet me at the BCC.” Because, you know, you go to the library, “where are you going to be? Upstairs, downstairs?” “I’m going to be downstairs.” “Where? Media center?” “Naw, naw, not the media center.” “Just meet me in the BCC, man, I'll get it over there.” So it was, it was, it was like our headquarters. It was, it was where life happened for us.
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Black Cultural Center Oral History Collection
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BCCOH_Prince_20210112_BCCclip2
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Prince, Damon, “Clipping from an interview with Damon Prince on the Black Cultural Center,” Tennessee Tech University Archives and Special Collections, accessed May 16, 2024, https://tntecharchives.omeka.net/items/show/388.
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