in particular the line of...The World Is Yours (Remix) Rare is the person who can conceptualize the hood,in all its pain, beauty and promise. Two pieces that do this are Nas’s Illmatic andMichele Wallaces, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman.Whats strikes me about both pieces is that they illicit anemotional response. In addition, Black Macho is particularlymoving [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Nas is Special’
Michelle Wallace and Illmatic
Thursday, December 25th, 2008Congress Got a Problem with Nas?
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Remember when MC hammer was considered a sell out becausehe endorsed so many products? My how things have changed. What this video brought up, that I never considered, was thedifficulty in buying ads with an album titled N-gger. Nas, oddly, appears to find comfort in the industries discomfort. Doesn’t Congress have better things to do [...]
Keep the La in the Air
Thursday, June 5th, 2008The post that got Gotty to take “notice” of me, and cross post,was piece where I was talking about listening to The World is Yoursremix and dancing around as I listened to it on repeat. That post is so old that, I think we were BOTH on Blogger then. Well. I went out tonight. And [...]
