Folks always note my penchant for announcing my public appearances at the last possible instant. (Reading in Cumberland, Maryland in two minutes! Catch it if you can!!) In an attempt to actually get people to come out, I'm offering advance warning. Next Tuesday evening I'll be in Brooklyn, at the Court Street Barnes & Nobles, reading with Adam Mansbach. I'll be, as always, hawking copies of The Beautiful Struggle.
Sorta. Actually, I'll also be previewing a project I'm working on--The Beautiful Remix. The idea is to take a few chapters from my book and do what Kid Hood did for Tribe in 92. Could be shockingly awesome and revealing. Could be shockingly derivative and redundant. Who knows until it's done. I'm not even sure how I, or if, I'm going to publish it. I may just throw it up on the blog. The more important point is that I'm having fun working on it, which is really all that matters. Takes me back to being a 16 again, when all I wanted was to do something like this. Feh, who am I kidding, even today, all I want is to do something like this.
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 
Copyright © 2009 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved.
was that redman in there eating that lollipop?
My hip-hop devotion peaked with Busta on the original "Scenario." One of those moments whose absence in only more painful when you try to duplicate it (sorry, '92). I think it was Thomas Wolfe who said "You can't say 'rowr rowr like a dungeon dragon' again."
Chocolate-y choco? The chocolate chicken?
BTW, my Macintosh back in college couldn't pull that shit off.
One must also remember that this was the heyday of Arsenio, who may have gotten 2000 shout-outs in various hip-hop albums from 1989-1993.
So, what time is said exciting project preview?
I always wondered whether Hood was the first rapper to drop the "two tears in a bucket" line on an LP.
We need some sort of hip hop lyrical search internet database for line attribution props.
Earliest source of the term North Cakalaka of North Carolina in my experience. Anyone know the etymology of that term?
I think this video was the inspiration for Pro Tools. Could be wrong.
God I love this video. I remember running home from school, which let out at 3:10, sprinting to catch Yo MTV Raps which started at 3:30. I knew I had a good day when the vaunted trifecta of Pop Goes the Weasel, Night of the Living Baseheads, and Scenario would appear on the same show.
How Scenario was not on VH1's recent 100 greatest Hip-Hop songs ever is a travesty!!!
sooooooooooo when are you coming to Howard University to read?
*nudge nudge, push push* :)
wallyz, that term goes way, way back. Some think 1800's-- definitely well before 1991.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carolinas