Panama Francis:
"George and I had similar ideas about proper deportment, unlike some of the "problem children" of the bebop era. It seems that the intellectuals just love to see bad behavior on the part of black musicians. The worse you act, the more they seem to like you. They just adored Miles; that's their image of how a musician should act! That's not the way George and I were taught to behave. We always tried to be role models for the young musicians coming up."
How far can you extend this? To rappers? What does it say about why people like this type of thing?