June 2012
6 posts
“If you try to locate the moment of a major paradigm shift, in the moment, perhaps by calling your album “Hip Hop Is Dead,” as Nas did in 2006, you’re slipping into weatherman territory. Will it rain tomorrow? Will another great rap album pop up? … If I had to pick a year for hip-hop’s demise, though, I would choose 2009, not 2006”
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Sasha Frere-Jones, in 2009. As Slate points out “It’s been fully five months since Rihanna took one of her thundering club-bangers to the top of the Hot 100, nearly a year since a rapper had a No. 1. (And Pitbull barely counts as a rapper.)”
Jay-Z, Freddie Gibbs, and the end of hip-hop : The New Yorker
“But above all, talented people seek cities for fame. They can’t get famous in the fucking village.”
—London Mayor Boris Johnson, The Reason for Cities
“It’s simply the case that the key to a happy marriage, a well-functioning family, and a productive place of work lies in carefully calibrating the ratio of Chaos Muppets to Order Muppets within any closed system. That, and always letting the Chaos Muppets do the driving.”
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Chaos Muppet - and proud!
What kind of Muppet are you, chaos or order? - Slate Magazine
Carly Rae Jepsen, Jimmy Fallon, and the Roots Present Today’s Most Delightful ‘Call Me Maybe’ Video -- Vulture →
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Questlove playing the Kazoo… my life is complete.
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