Maybe its because it was the soundtrack to Q-Tip dying in Poetic Justice, or maybe I’m just a dork, or maybe its just that Stevie Wonder can sing, but this song gets me every time I hear it.
I don’t think it can be avoided, I feel some list-making coming on. I will add this song to a “Favorite Songs to Avoid” list. Lauren Hill’s Ex-Factor will also be on that list, and maybe some Mazzy Star.
What other lists should I make? I’d start a rant about the list of top 10 MCs that MTV just put out, but I’d rather you go here and read the fight already in progress. > nah-right.com
You know where my allegience lies… it’s The R.
I recently watched Behind the Actor’s Studio with Dave Chappelle and it got me excited again.
DJs, like curators, are collectors, so when Grandmaster Flash and other hip-hop luminaries met up with some officials from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History the other day, there was some serious collecting to discuss. To begin with, museum director Brent Glass described his institution’s grand undertaking: “It’s the only museum in the world that has the mission of telling the whole of American history,” he said. It’s a tall order, but the museum’s holdings—nearly three million objects, which include a Pac-Man gumball bank, a bag of brown rice, and over a hundred pieces of Tupperware—give the impression that the curators cast a wide net. Now alongside the S. Newman Darby Windsurfing Collection, the museum will maintain an archive entitled “Hip-Hop Won’t Stop: The Beat, the Rhymes, the Life.”
“Smithsonian Global Sound delivers the world’s diverse cultural expressions via the Internet in an informative way for a reasonable price. It also helps encourage local musicians and traditions around the planet through international recognition, the payment of royalties, and support for regional archives.”
I absolutely want to do