ATG sizes it all up.
Sorry I've been a little absent this week.
This story has been making the rounds on the Net since last weekend, and I just want to say how retarded and painfully obvious ("check out the ego on THOSE guys!") the whole thing is. The author thinks he's cute or insightful, I guess. The editors are just happy I'm blogging about it.
Also, Glenn Beck is a terrorist, not a cute subject for the media to mull over.
Also, "gangsta rap"? Really?? I can't even let you skate on that one, creamy-New-York-Times-guy. Gangsta Rap is dead (not that any of the people you mentioned were ever associated with it). The members of NWA are all either retired, starring in family comedies, or long ago struck down by The Virus.
P.S. Anyone hankering for a legit academic treatise on a modern hip-hop subject (believe it or not, at least one actually exists) should scope this intellectually rigorous breakdown from ForeignPolicy.com's Mark Lynch. It astutely compares Jay-Z's relationship with haters to the United States' relationship with smaller, temperamental stone-throwers like Iran and North Korea.
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Gangster rap is dead?
I'd say it's in remission, but you still have you "Game, Nipssey Hussle types out there.
Good article choices and commentary. Makes you think. Sometimes you have to listen to the opposing radicals (either opposing radical: olberman/orielly) just to see what all the hoopla is about. You know people actually believe that stuff. (either side is honestly extreme)
Remission is a fair point. But I'd say it's a pretty deep remission, lol. Game is the obvious exception, but even he's kind of 2 years ago at this point, and he never really brought the revival we were promised. I do like what I've been hearing from Nipssey. I think he one-upped Drake on the "Killer" joint, which is just a phenomenal track all around, imo. BAGNN3 is pretty nice, too.
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