Friday, August 5th, 2005
A Convo On Hip-Hop Writing
If you didn’t know already, Tamara Palmer–whose Country-Fried Soul: Adventures in Dirty South Hip-Hop is out now!–and I have been blogging on SOHH.com’s Connect Politic… about hip-hop writing. Check it out and let us know how much we suck. Meanwhile if you have a hip-hop book jones, peep the reading list on the right!
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Jeff congratulations on The American Book award. That makes you official with boulgie people now.
Hip Hop Writing is the new thing though, a lot of people is doing it that dont have talent. Like I cannot be botherd with high school dropouts philosophy on this shit to be honest. Yourself excluded by the way, but to me, hip hop writing a la Toure and people like that, whatever man.
I saw Tamara on Distortin 2 Static last night….TIIIIIGHT….
-Adisa