Heard this interesting media/culture/money rant read aloud on Garth Trinidad’s always-500%-brilliant “Chocolate City” radio show tonight, here in Los Angeles. Excerpt:
“Balling” shouldn’t be renting a mansion; it should be owning your own distribution company or starting a union. Bill Cosby’s bid to buy NBC was more threatening than any screwface, jewelry-clad MC in a video could ever be.
As a DJ, it’s hard. I pick up the instrumental version of records that people nod their head to… and mix it with the a cappella version of artists with something to say. It is expensive and frustrating. But I feel like the alternative is the musical equivalent to selling crack: spinning hits because it’s easy, ignoring the fact that it’s got us dancing to genocide.
