Poetically Placed F-Bombs

Spun the elliptical trainer to Dr Dre's "Deeez Nuuuts" this morning at the gym.

Chiggie check... Microphone check one. Now I can't get "I can't be faded" out of my head this morning.

[comedy skit from Deeez Nuuuts]
"If I had some nuts, hangin on the walls, what did I have honey?"
I said, "Darling you'd have some walnuts."
She said, "Well.. daddy if I had some nuts on my chest, would those be chestnuts?"
I said, "Hell yes!"
She said, "Well daddy if I had nuts under my chin would those be chin-nuts?"
I said, "Hell no bitch you'd have a dick in your mouth!"



Since emerging in the South Bronx, hip hop has spread around the world.  Knowing I like repetitive beats, raw language, and poetry, I owe a debt of gratitude to my kids for introducing me to hip hop over a series of family car trips over the years.

Hip hop is my kid's generation answering my generation's soul music. To describe hip hop to my generation, I would first tell them to recall Little Anthony & The Imperials singing Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop.

Then I would point out to them that if you added raw and compelling lyrics to Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop, and threw in a modest amount of poetically placed f-bombs, you'd have hip hop in its West Coast gangsta flavor.

Ku Klux Kurriculum

Members of the Texas Board of Education did their best to out wing-nut Harry Elmer Barnes' Holocaust Denial movement, and to build a bridge to the 16th century, by striking Hip hop from the Texas social studies curriculum and by burying mention of the Age of Enlightenment.

Hip-hop, which Board Members consider nihilistic, will be replaced by country and western.

See the posts

• Texas Bans Hip-Hop. How's That for Enlightenment?
• Textbooks a Texas Dentist Could Love

It's only fitting to strike back with a clip of some well-fed good ol' boys - Austin's alt-country band The Gourds - doing a cover of Snoop Dogg's homage to Seagrams and Tanqueray gin, Gin & Juice.

With so much drama in the L-B-C

Its kinda hard bein Snoop D-o-double-g

But I, somehow, some way

Keep comin up with funky ass shit like every single day

~Snoop Dogg

Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed. ~Victor Hugo