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Writing about Public Enemy yesterday reminded me that I once had a bunch of Yo! MTV Raps trading cards. They were like baseball cards, with pictures of hip-hop artists on the front and littles bios about them on the back. I'm not sure what happened to them. I never came across them when I was rummaging through things back in Kansas last month. If I knew where they were, I suppose I could make a few bucks selling them on eBay, especially now that the people who were listening to hip-hop back when Yo! MTV Raps was on the air are now grown up and have jobs and can spend a little bit of money indulging their nostalgia.
locakitty was wondering a while back why old-school hip-hop hasn't found a place on the radio the way classic rock has. I miss the hip-hop I used to listen to. Now lyrics of subversion and empowerment have been replaced by lyrics of misogyny and gang violence--all of which Saul Williams eloquently lamented in The Dead Emcee Scrolls.
Speaking of books, I went to Bookmans yesterday and left with a couple of good finds, both of which I bought with trade credit: Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser and What Happened in Ohio? A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election by Robert J. Fitrakis, Steven Rosenfeld, and Harvey Wasserman. I also found a cheap gift to send to butternutsquash.
locakitty was wondering a while back why old-school hip-hop hasn't found a place on the radio the way classic rock has. I miss the hip-hop I used to listen to. Now lyrics of subversion and empowerment have been replaced by lyrics of misogyny and gang violence--all of which Saul Williams eloquently lamented in The Dead Emcee Scrolls.
Speaking of books, I went to Bookmans yesterday and left with a couple of good finds, both of which I bought with trade credit: Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser and What Happened in Ohio? A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election by Robert J. Fitrakis, Steven Rosenfeld, and Harvey Wasserman. I also found a cheap gift to send to butternutsquash.