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10.14.2004
It has become commonplace, even trite, to call hip-hop 'the poetry of the streets'. And Public Enemy's micman Chuck D. has famously called rap music 'black people's CNN' But even if we are to give these observations the name of truth, we still lack a number of the classical canon. What is the epistemology of the streets? Whither urban ontology? What is black people's PHI 101? Here's the answer. PHILOSOPHERS AND THEIR COMPLEMENTARY RAPPERS 1. David Hume/MF Doom 2. Heidegger/Rah Digga 3. Edmund Burke/DJ Kool Herc 4. Germany's Friedrich Nietzche/KRS-One's "T'cha T'cha" 5. young Hegel/Ol' Dirty Bastard RECOMMENDED LISTENING 1. Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology/The Roots' Phrenology 2. David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion/3rd Bass's Derelicts of Dialect 3. William James' Essays in Pragmatism/Channel Live's "Mad Izms" 4. A.J. Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic/Baba's "Beatbox Logic" 5. Dieter Henrich's Aesthetic Judgment and the Moral Image of the World/Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth's Mecca and the Soul Brother THEORY 1. Epistemology/Busterismology 2. Materialism/Turntablism 3. Aesthestics/Ebonics 4. Theodicy/Hiphoprisy 5. Transgressive Culture/Gangsta Rap STATEMENTS OF PURPOSE 1. "We must stop distinguishing between the absolute and the relative if we wish to abandon the metaphysics of presence, the search for a full presence beyond the reach of play, an absolute beyond the reach of relationality." (Jacques Derrida) 2. "Once again back is the incredible/the rhyme animal/the young cannibal/D.!/Public enemy number one/five-oh said 'Freeze'!'/and then I got numb/should I tell him that I never really had a gun/it's just the wax that the Terminator X spun." (Chuck D.) 3. "Just as necessity and the search for a single all-comprehensive law was typical of the intellectual atmosphere of the last century, so probability and pluralism are the characteristics of the present state of science." (John Dewey) 4. "I got you stuck off the realness/we be the infamous/you heard of us?/Official Queensbridge murderers/our mob comes equipped for warfare/beware of my crime family/got enough shots to spare." (Prodigy of Mobb Deep) 5. "I am a nightmare walking, psychopath talking, king of my jungle, just a gangster stalking. Living life like a firecracker, quick is my fuse -- vendettas of death, that's the colors I choose. Red or blue, Crips or Bloods, it just don't matter -- suckers died for your life when my shotgun scatters. The gangs of L.A. will never die; just multiply." ( STUNTS, BLUNTS & HIP-HOP 1. Kangols/huge mustaches 2. Indo/absinthe 3. Pouring a 40 out on the sidewalk for your dead homies/writing bitchy monographs 4. Going down in a hail of bullets just as your first album goes platinum/dying of syphillis even though you've never had sex 5. East Coast vs. West Coast beef/Anglo-American vs. Continental beef |
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| TODAY'S DRIFTWOOD: "Be just: the unjust never prosper. Be valiant: die rather than yield. Be merciful: slay neither old men, children, nor women. Destroy neither fruit trees, grain, nor cattle. Keep your word, even to your enemies." (Abu-Bak'r) |