this might not hurt, but close your eyes anyways

Put on a Nas track without realizing its the radio edit. What’s a good metaphor for this?

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Well, the world didn’t end. To celebrate, here is the best music video known to man.

All you need to know right now is that the Django Unchained soundtrack features a James Brown/2Pac collaboration.

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Adam Nathaniel Yauch died Friday. If you’re age 16-66 — maybe 106 — you know him as MCA, one-third of the Beastie Boys. He was 47. Way too young. But gone.

Now, half-white Barack Obama (exactly my age) didn’t say a word, even though he was talking to college kids that day, but make no mistake, MCA was no Jay-Z or Kanye West. This guy was the real deal, groundbreaker, up from his bootstraps, Brooklyn boy made good. Funny the “coolest president ever” doesn’t say a word about the passing of MCA. Weird and kinda sad, actually.

A columnist in the Washington Times hits the elusive trinity of racism, awkwardness, and pseudointellectualism. A small part of me admires him; few racists profess to know a damn thing about hip-hop music.

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Michael Jackson, Man in the Mirror.

This is the first song I listen to every new year. So, here.

Politically motivated lines I like from Lupe Fiasco’s new mixtape, Friend of the People

while we waitin’ on that compromise / proceed with that conscious side / new game alert / hashtag: occupy
imagine a life that revolves around shoppin’ / conspicuous consumption / that means it serves no other function / than to show off to someone
actin’ like they the man up in here / it don’t count when your only real fan is a mirror
bought a bag at american rags / a small chinese-made american flag / took a dolla’ bill then split it in half / the picture that she bought wouldn’t fit in a cab
this is dedicated to the soldiers / who throw a peace sign in the face of bulldozers
only time i wrestle’s / when i’m wrestling with settling / only way i’ll settle’s / when we wrestle over everything
look at all the friends that marketing makes / how much more fries can these arteries take / i’ll give mcdonald’s a lil’ help here / i think they should expand into healthcare / and get all ends covered / even make caskets keep it all umbrella’d
ask rush limbaugh / to return my calls

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Politically motivated lines I like from Lupe Fiasco’s new mixtape, Friend of the People