Detractors of hip hop culture and rap music prompt to say that « anybody can rap », that « rap aint music, its crap ». All those people are totally wrong in their judgements, because they totally ignore what rap music is all about. Its is so easy to be demeaning towards something they dont even understand.
Rap music cannot be viewed the way you would look at classical music, but it is a very complicated and sophisticated art.
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Month: March 2004
Legal advice
I have received legal advice from California by phone. I have not retracted my original statement or issued an apology. The 3 week deadline ends on March 31.
I will be seeking a second opinion before making a final decision.
Nicholas D. Kristof: Risks of a nuclear Sept. 11 are increasing
Nick paints a grim picture…
A 10-kiloton nuclear bomb (a pipsqueak in weapons terms) is smuggled into Manhattan and explodes at Grand Central. Some 500,000 people are killed, and the United States suffers $1 trillion in direct economic damage.
That scenario, cited in a report last year from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, could be a glimpse of our future. We urgently need to control nuclear materials to forestall that threat, but in this war on proliferation, we’re now slipping backward. President George W. Bush (after ignoring the issue before the Sept. 11 attacks) now forcefully says the right things – but still doesn’t do enough.
Senators call for paper trail in e-voting
Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bob Graham called Wednesday for a paper trail to back up electronic voting throughout the country.
If only our opposition parties were this organised…
Europe and the US are now adrift: Martin Jacques
Martin Jacques with an interesting take on the trans-atlantic relationship. Best question:
For over three centuries the world was hugely Euro-centric. The cold war may have granted a 50-year extension on its lease, but 9/11 finally marked closure. How does a relatively small continent, which has played such a humungous global role for so long, adapt to tumultuous and troubling changes that require it to assume a very different place in the world? That is now the European story, and will be for a long time to come.
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To claim a global role, the EU needs its own security council
Steven Everts and Antonio Missiroli in the IHT last week arguing that the EU needs more power…
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Europe's debt to Rumsfeld: Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard, of the Foreign Policy Center in the Uk, believes that Europe should thank Rumsfeld for his attempts at disaggregation of East and West Europe.
Close ally of Chirac guilty in jobs case
Time to catch up on all these things I meant to post…
Former Prime Minister of France, Alain Juppe, found guilty of illegal party financing of a fake jobs plan. He could be barred from running for President in 2007.
Apparently Irish politicians can’t be barred from public service due to constiutional requirements – I wonder if that is the case.
Lack of posts
Apologies about my lack of posts, besides keeping track of all the comments and links, I am preparing for a trip to Toronto and onto other parts of Canada. I leave this Saturday!
Normal blogging will resume from tonight, but I will be keeping all readers up to date with my legal situation.
Thanks to everybody thus far for their input, it is all welcome.
Glenn on the John Gray thing
Glenn Reynolds has picked up the John Gray story, and writes a lengthy entry on it. I like Jeff Jarvis’ idea.