CesareVenegoni

Going a bit deep, but here's my theory on why Sly's performance was so well received at the end: This movie is set in a world where the south won the Civil War. New York, since it's now "southern," makes sense as suddenly having a huge country music presence- African Americans were probably pretty fucked in the Confederate States of America, so jazz, blues, rock and roll- none of them ever came to exist. But since the good ole' boys of the south now control the whole country, their culture would have permeated everything. What Sly is doing is creating something new to them- hip-hop. When he does "Tutti-Fruity" it's completely original, and obviously subpar to what we know since Little Richard never existed to do it. When he busts out a spoken word/rap intro, no one had ever done that before. Sly is their Chuck Berry and Sugarhill Gang, all rolled into one. It's also why the rednecks in Tennessee are so much redder and the Italians and Japanese are so over the top- when the average person is redneck the other extremes get turned up to balance. Also, it explains why Italians and Japanese are allowed in America- if the CSA fought in WW2, who do you think they would be allies with?