Looking for a database of Odd Future’s lyrics, I came across this article last fall in The Voice by Zach Baron. I remember reading it, but I didn’t have the head space to process and write about it. Baron writes, To condemn Odd Future for their lyrics we’d have to talk about Eminem, Cam’ron (unspeakable [...]
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On White Men and Their Fascination with Odd Future
Thursday, July 14th, 2011Rough Draft: Malcolm X + Lil B and Black Men’s Sexuality
Saturday, May 7th, 2011I woke up with the portion of the post on Lil B and Malcolm in my head. “….Writing about Black men’s sexuality is important because sexuality is racism’s third rail. Sexual domination, violence and the threat of violence have all been tools to keep Black folks, women and Black women in check. An examination of sexuality, the [...]
Black Poets + Writers, Born to Stay Broke?
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011Langston Hughes x Underpaid Poets x DJ Kool Herc’s Hospital Bills. There are a few things going through my head, clearly. The first is, a couple of weeks ago, poet and professor Thomas Sayers Ellis took the cardboard cut out of Langston Hughes from Busboys arguing that it was disrespectful and that the poets are [...]
Rap & The Tea Party: Musing on Violence and Rhetoric
Thursday, January 13th, 2011I have been thinking about the resistance to the idea that words influence actions in general violence in particular. In reality, the repetition of words is arguably one of the most powerful forces on earth. Is there a connection between the ways in which rappers and Tea Party members use violent words, and how these [...]
