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This just in from the year 2020: "Staffers for Barton's presidential campaign went into overdrive yesterday after reports surfaced that the presumptive nominee made over 20,000 posts, many with sex, drug and anarcho-syndicalist references, on an Internet bulletin board known as Via Chicago."

I have lost a bud or two that way, sure.

Look, we all know there is a lot of duh-dumb, third-rate crap-rap out there, but those of us who are pervious to rap know there is some damn fine writing going on in the genre. So let's post our examples, shall we? I'll open with Black Star (Mos Def and Talib Kweli) and "Atmosphere (8th Light)." [Mos Def] Against the canvas of the night Appears a curious celestial phenomena called Black Star, but what is it? [Talib Kweli] Black people unite and let's all get down We got to have what? We got to have that love [Mos Def] What is the Black Star? Is it the cat with the black shades, the black

He's pretty good. It's in a building that kind of looks like a spaceship landed in the middle of a field in Red Hook, N.Y.

That belongs in the blasphemy thread.

Do tell. I am going to see the Leon Botstein Symphony Orchestra tonight. Zara-fucking-thustra! and some Sibelius and Barber (Knoxville 1915) too.

Kleenex, in a dark load. O.Y.

Well, then, whatever comes next, I am not prepared to accept.

Rakim has been name-checked.

The guy in the movie was right - Mozart used too many notes.

@#!!%#!! Penguins.

I think it's unlikely Hillary will be the nominee, but I will stop short of "impossible." Watch how the fundraising goes - that will tell the tale.

One more attempt to include Beck in this thread and I'm shutting it. NWA is great. Sadly, I do not know enough about Pete Rock and CL Smooth to judge. Arrested Development is kind of like that G. Love and Special Sauce crap - the Coors Light of hip hop.

You make it sound like it is not quite rational to want Hillary as the nominee. I know quite a few people who would disagree.

Yes. Shortly after they switched overdog/underdog roles.

Yep. SpankRock does some good stuff too.

Turn it on, turn it on again!

That record still stands up. Very good stuff. See original post.

I do too. I am sad they never hit it big.

Just my opinion, but here are some names for those who don't ordinarily listen to the stuff. A Tribe Called Quest The Roots (Most of) The Beastie Boys Gang Starr De La Soul The Pharcyde

I like Genesis, both Gabriel-era and what followed, up until about the Genesis "Genesis" album, more than it is probably cool to admit around here.

It's called charisma, and Barack has it in spades. His detractors' mission has been to bring up as much crap as possible to tarnish that sheen. It may be that some in the media fell for it a little bit earlier this year and now feel guilty about it and are overcompensating.

Quoted for truth.