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Brent D. Glass, the director of the museum, said the project was begun in recent months with seed money from Universal Records and was still in its earliest stages of planning, also said that, now whenever anybody asks him about his music, Ice-T said, he would direct him with a torrent of blunt epithets to the museum. But he said that he and his conservators believed the time had come to recognize hip-hop, with its straight-from-the-gut raps and minimalist funk, as a significant cultural force that had spread all over the United States and, increasingly, the world. Mr. Glass said that American music is the soundtrack to American history. Brent D. Glass, the director of the museum, said the project was begun in recent months with seed money from Universal Records and was still in its earliest stages of planning. But he said that he and his curators believed the time had come to recognize hip-hop, with its straight-from-the-gut raps and minimalist funk.