introducing his new song. “Of course — we all know it. I’m not gonna play it right now because we come to find out that it has racist roots.“But check this out — Good Humor, they called me up and they was like, ‘We gotta do something about this, Riz.
We can change the dynamics. We can make a new ice cream jingle for a new era,’ ” the rapper added.In 2014, NPR documented the history of the tune, which was used in racist minstrel shows and became popularized in 19th-century ice cream parlors that played “popular minstrel songs of the day” and eventually ice cream trucks.“[The] melody originated from British and Irish folk songs, which had no racial connotations,” Good Humor wrote of “Turkey in the Straw” in a statement on its website. “But.
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