Word Up: Hip-hop is old
Posted by Jef in Music, Rappers, Word up on 20. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
It’s the stuff of genres and yes, blueprints — changing vanguards, provocateur newcomers, torch passings, aged mentors and sniveling students. Cliches about the more things change, etc. Movies where wily old men defeat athletic teens with sheer know-how and decades worth of muscle memory. Honourable samurai versus heretic ninja. The good ol’ days when work [...]
Word Up: Feel better about 'Gossip Girl'
Posted by Jef in fashion, Pop Culture, Race, Television, Word up on 15. Sep, 2009 | 0 Comments
Wow, it’s been one hell of a clusterfuck in the world of pop culture lately, hasn’t it? It’s been so interesting, frustrating, vapid and zeitgeisty out there that the season premiere of Gossip Girl slid under the radar. Yeah, Gossip Girl. I know you watch the shit. And if not, maybe you should. It’s all [...]
