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Reality first appeared in the late 1980sin the sense not of real life but rather of the TV entertainment genre inaugurated by shows such as Cops and Americas Most Wanted the daytime gabfests of Geraldo, Oprah, and Donahue and the tabloid news of A Current Affair. In a bracing work of cultural criticism, Eric Harvey argues that reality TV emerged in dialog with another kind of entertainment that served as its foil while borrowing its techniques: gangsta rap. Or, as legendary performers Ice Cube and Ice-T called it, reality rap. Read more