Cecil Brown on "Stagolee Shot Billy"

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Jim Fleming talks with Cecil Brown, author of “Stagolee Shot Billy.”  Brown has researched the true story that gave rise to the Stagolee myth, and explains what the song has meant to various groups, especially within the African-American community. And the tradition lives on in rap. Brown says every rapper is enacting the Stagolee myth. And of course, we hear several versions of the song.