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Well, at this point, you're either a troll, or you're a racist or both, ted.
At the very mention of PE, you flew off the handle when I had just written that from what I had read of Nas he was a "gifted rapper."
Nas is funny & also a truth-teller, even when the truth, as he understands it, isn't pretty. His wordplay is good, but so is the writing of a lot of rappers. He's no genius; he's much too gangsta to be a genius & I don't buy into the "art as a mirror of society" defence. He does it because it's a proven formula to be hard because it sells records.
Public Enemy felt that, as artists, they had a duty to not just reflect the world around them, but to be visionaries.
If you'll recall, I also wrote that some of Dylan's lyrics were cynical & even hateful & that he was often a crotchety, untrusting fuck so it isn't like he smells like roses 100% of the time either.
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