The cool Kidz in class
Nostalgic hip-hop heads yearn for the music of its golden era: the late ’80s and early ’90s. Back then, many say hip-hop was eclectic and pure and truly represented their neglected generation. The jazzy beats and introspective rhymes of A Tribe Called Quest, Souls of Mischief, Rakim, De La Soul and Black Moon pumped out of boom-box speakers on street corners across the country. To some fans, no one new can measure up to these artists.
But on its second album, the duo Kidz in the Hall stacks its records high enough to reach the peak hip-hop hit 15 years ago. The In Crowd is a well-sewn tapestry of funk, soul, boom-bap and jazz beats made by DJ/producer Double-O that perfectly wraps around rapper Naledge’s melodic flow and clever wordplay. With record scratches, Masta Ace vocal samples, big-band horns, braggadocio punch lines and honest stories about relationships, being a struggling artist and overcoming inner demons, the album encompasses all that hip-hop fans have loved in the past, yet it is like nothing they’ve ever heard before.
Kidz in the Hall’s sophomore effort is much more mature and accessible than its inconsistent and somewhat pretentious debut, School Was My Hustle. The title is a nod to the duo’s Ivy League education at the University of Pennsylvania, where the two met. Although it was clear the group had potential, the album was littered with bitten beats, uninspiring lyrics and an overall style some may criticize as hipster rap.
But in two years, Kidz in the Hall has ditched its gimmick, perfected its sound and left us with nothing less than refreshing hip-hop everyone from prep-school student to college dropout can relate to. The In Crowd should bring Kidz in the Hall industry respect as well as crossover fame.
The album is jamming from its jump-off - “The Blackout” is a wild collage of samples fit for a Kool Herc block party. Naledge, an accomplished rapper with metaphors and insight reminiscent of Lupe Fiasco and Phonte from Little Brother, spits entertaining boasts, such as “I’m nice ’round mics like I was Scott Pippen” and “On stage with hands up like bomb threats/ I make n—-s straight go nuts like ‘Nam vets.”
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but aren’t anarchists equivalent to NO government (= no police, no courts)? how can you have law without an enforcement arm (standard). are they pro vigilante? imagine the wide range of ‘correct’ that would produce. The reason you don’t understand how anarchists can be libertarians is apparently because you believe all anarchists are amoral.yeah i guess that’s my (admittedly limited) understanding of it.still Libertarians (my understanding of it) believe that victim = crime.it is a FACT the predators exist. how do anarchists deal with this? and how is ‘predator’ defined? a subjective measure up to the opinion of the observer?well i suppose it’s possible in a semantics kind of way. perhaps my definitions are too narrow.
IP theft is not an obvious evil, and price fixing is unsustainable unless propped up by the government. They don’t include true victims. When I steal real property from you, you’re deprived of something. When I steal “intellectual” property - you still have it. Intellectual “property” is a misnomer. It’s a monopoly privilege bestowed by the State. And who are the victims of price fixing? Even if it were generally sustainable, it’s the seller’s property to do with what he likes.There aren’t only armed robbers, rapists, murders, and robber barons. There is also government.
60k a year as a median is very good. Unemployment rates are low, higher education can be achieved with a little determination regardless of financial status… There is no reason to be paranoid, sheeple.
Maybe if they faced the full punishment of their crimes, they’d be less willing to pass outrageous 0-tolerance laws. If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.The only argument you could make in favor of immunization would be that jail would interfere with their duties as an elected representative, but if they commit a crime that has jail as a punishment, throw them in jail and elect someone else to serve. When they come back out, let them run again for the people to decide. It worked for Marion Barry
Then again, one of the solution proposed by the Participatory Economics theory is that matters are handled at the appropriate level by citizen forums, organized further in federations at different geographical levels (neighborhood, city, county, region, country, international, etc). Citizens would have the ability to address directly problems that concern only their immediate environment, and larger issues could be tackled by councils of councils, operating on the basis of mandates and actual accountability. It would be a hands-on process, not a elect-an-oligarch-every-four-years type of “democracy”. I believe this is efficient, moral and possible, from a technical/psychological point of view. More information on ParEcon can be found at http://www.zmag.org/parecon/indexnew.htm
… until Democrats get back in power, right Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT)? Then we’ll be all OK again.
I was thinking about writing something in response but Rand did it best. If you really want to take the time and get a good perspective on money I encourage you to read this.
And what values other than money do you think they should have?
I do respect money and what it can enable both for individuals and societies, but I still think that even just as a means, it leads far more often to materialism, competition, and self-alienation than happiness.Having said that, I didn’t read your link (yet.) I will though, and I appreciate you posting it.
NO, halfwit. THe solution start with simple engineering principles. Discover and acknowledge society-wide the forces in play. Any engineer knows that until he accounts for all of the forces in play, any solution he proposes is crap.Your so-called politics is crap because it has not discovered, acknowledged and promulgated society-wide these forces. Now go and ahead mod me down, you half-educated keyboard commandos….
no such thing. you are an anarchist. Libertarianism is about prohibiting initiatory aggression.no victim = no crime. Libertarian anarchists simply recognize the fact that government itself requires initiatory aggression.how so? other than the initial conquering of the territory.i don’t see how an anarchist (murder is A okay, theft is A okay) can claim libertarian (victim = crime)…unless you’re abstracting your perspective to the point that no such laws are necessary, since the people neither murder nor steal as a matter of personal choice and lifestyle.is that what you mean?
I can’t stand Juan Williams either.