Slate hates Hip Hop?

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maybe he shouldn't be making blog posts at 3:46 AM...

np: "I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun," Cat Stevens

When I read that, I just assumed Kaus is a tool.

Kaus is a tool.

mickey kaus does not equal slate in any regard

man obama is a punk in the eyes of rightist gangsters. his whole language is bound to the left

Kaus is a tool.

black and decker. useless "media critic" aka dude w/o original thought in his noggin

really wish alex had gone with the original title of this thread, "Will Obama Kill Bling?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-battiata/the-next-big-bling_b_106870.html

the article he links to is a really gross and condescending whitey fantasy about how black people should be acting

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0nfyxqlkldse~T0

People do dress like giant babies these days, but I don't think hip hop style is necessarily worse than anything else on the racks.

Also, lol @ well-to-do liberals moaning about "bling".

lol @ bling being outdated slang that whiteys use to simultaneously prove theyre down and to condescend

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0nfyxqlkldse~T0

-- abanana, Sunday, June 15, 2008 12:16 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

wow

lol @ mickey kaus

although if i were mickey kaus i would say i liked mickey kaus just to be contrarian.

i don't know what i'd do if I ever saw a black man wearing a suit. i mean, i just haven't thought about it.

so mickey kaus doesn't like "shiny suit" hip hop?!?

No invite for him to deej's house parties, then.

Sitting on the front porch of 67-year-old Willie Dorn, a retired corrections officer, Milloy noted the antics of a group of teenaged boys "shirtless, pants below their behinds," who, as Milloy and Dorn watched, launched a plastic bottle at a passing scooter, nearly causing an accident.

How many more scooters do we have to lose before we ban plastic bottles?

Read More: Barack Obama, Bling, Fashion, Hip Hop, Hip Hop Fashion, Obama, Politics News

Mary Battiata is a former Washington Post reporter and foreign correspondent who now lives and writes in Washington DC, where she leads the alt.country band Little Pink.

No invite for him to deej's house parties, then.

-- The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Sunday, June 15, 2008 2:05 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

haha.

ah, sorry, didn't notice what that AMG link was at first. But anyway:

Review by Eugene Chadbourne

In the early years of the 21st century, rock critics could oft be heard moaning about the similarity of the way so many hit rock singles sound, how one sometimes can't even tell the records from the commercials on the radio. The uniform blandness of the average rock combo circa 2001 also extended to independent releases by bands that are not well-known outside of their local region, if that. This group is a collaboration involving singer and guitarist Mary Battiata and Karl Straub, a vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and bandleader known mostly for his work with his band the Graverobbers. Here Straub keeps his mouth shut except for the odd backing vocal, leaving the singing chores to Battista, who is pleasantly piped indeed. When the band goes into a folk-rock or slightly country direction there seems to be at least a glimmer of personality in view, the light at the end of the tunnel as good old General William Westmoreland used to put it. Naturally a band wants to kick things off with a rocking number, though, and chances are the opening "Rocking Horse" is so generic that many listeners won't get past it.

lol

It makes sense if she's an alt.country musician, that she'd want other actually good genres to become equally emasculated anodyne versions of themselves as well.

gold teeth is just healthy. malleable metals are good for the body

esp if u got a chain around right above your groin it feels good, gets u circulating right

esp if ur belt aint hyperimpactin all the cheese u just ate

urban black kids wearing saggy pants = bad

suburban white journalists wearing cowboy hats = ok

this ain't your father's gay dad

bet dudes also a staunch supporter of braces

suspenders are the future

god save us from some of obama's "supporters" (kaus and mary battiata, that is)!!

bitch asses turned on by an intellect and racial lust they couldnt touch with 10 years of amherst

Mary Battiata is the former drummer of Gay Dad.

oops shit, sorry i didn't realize i'd been beaten to it...

god save us from some of obama's "supporters" (kaus and mary battiata, that is)!!

cosign with this, in these two pieces there's this current of "Obama - the kind of black guy who might serve as a ROLE MODEL!" that just pisses me the fuck off with its "our standards are the good ones" garbage

honestly I think some people hate on the sagging look because they can't pull it off & are jealous - I know if I wouldn't look ridiculous in 3XL, I would be rocking that look the fuck out, because it'd be really comfortable

I know my limits tho

eh come on that shits so played even mickey kaus knows better

Kaus is awful; I wish he weren't on Slate; I can't for the life of me figure out how someone like Mike Kinsley ever regarded him as an intellectual peer; and he has a longstanding habit of pissing me off with his terrible, paternalistic attitude toward black people, immigrants, and basically anyone he can imagine as a discrete culture. Really awful.

slate >>>>>>>>> salon

once u got 2 much health caer ppl start 2 get freaky

I bet David Plotz hates hip-hop too. What a maroon.

http://www.crunktastical.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/fiddy2.jpg

i hope obama's success will persuade tiger woods to stop wearing sweater vests. for the good of the children.