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Alan Smithee - I did pick two cities at random, but not two cities with poor black populations, more two cities where rap is big. It could've just as easily have been Philly, Compton, etc. I'm not touching the who west vs. east here, there's way too much to get into. Also I'm very familiar with KRS-One and didn't intend to describe him as radio friendly, that was just poor phrasing on my part. I was referring to him hitting top 40. But yeah, no hard feelings or anything; it felt like I was being attacked and I just sort of went on the defense by reflex.
And Skettios, I know he does, but he's not affiliated with them. Collaboration in the hip hop world is about as widespread as it possibly could be, if you counted that you could probably play six degrees of seperation and argue that every major hip hop artist is affiliated with every other one ever.
The moral of this is not to post this in-depth at 3 am. The number of factual errors is up to two, assuming anyone doesn't spot any more (both, unsurprisingly, related to NWA; I never was particularly fond of them) and some poor phrasing on my part causing a lot of confusion. Tlso the massive threadjack pulling everything off topic here.
Now back to your regularly scheduled discussion. Kanye West good, gay as a derogatory term bad.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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