If we valued black art, Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer would have been for literature

The Guardian ^ | 04/21/18 | Dotun Adebayo

[a fool in paradise]

>>As for rap music, we used to compose chants of similar quality and character. When we were ten years old.

Rappers were inspired by the sing-songy playground rhymes of their older sisters playing jump rope.

But there ain’t no street cred in saying that your baby sittin’ big sis was the basis for your rhymes so they claim it was from the pimp toasts they never got to hear as kiddos.

[Jack Hammer]

Times like these, Star Trek crews need four hands for sufficient face palms.

The author of this piece has the mind of a two-year-old and is utterly and absolutely clueless.

[trebb]

Ditto - I’ll even volunteer to say a few words at the grave....