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Bloggers and Rappers

Damn. That's exactly what I wanted to say about it.

Posted by Ezra Klein on February 24, 2005 7:29 PM | Permalink

COMMENTS (11)

That column was like Vanilla Ice, in an 8-ball jacket, telling some girl to lose the zero and get with the hero.

We'll all appreciate it for its minimal camp value in about 10 years.

Posted by: norbizness | February 24, 2005 8:08 PM

I seem to be the first, and I may be the only, but I was entertained while reading that article. I actually enjoyed reading it. Maybe I'm tired, maybe I'm sad, or maybe I'm just really bored...but I liked it. I'm sorry. Whip me now. I promise I won't scream.

Posted by: Steve C | February 24, 2005 9:03 PM

I'm already appreciating it for its minimal camp value. where's my bottle of cristal? bloggers in the hizza!

Posted by: belle waring | February 24, 2005 9:04 PM

Yo, playa.

The dude needs to be relegated to the far depths of the internets just for using the term "blingosphere."

- M.C. Shakes

Posted by: Shakespeare's Sister | February 24, 2005 11:01 PM

all you sucka MC's needs to recka nize

Posted by: praktike | February 25, 2005 2:12 AM

I like the blogger-as-rapper notion if not the column's execution. Sort of like a wack rap lyric centered around one really good sample. But I just spent my Friday night doing laundry so even the slightest hint of a bad-ass image is appealing.

The song that came to mind for me wasn't rap but David Bowie:

"I am a DJ, I am what I play."

I was a DJ for a few years and I remember that vague feeling from the overnight radio days - wondering if anyone's listening. At least blogging, I have a hit counter...

And here's a serious thought: will print media's trent to pay-to-play archives do to bloggers what the increased price of copyright clearance did to rappers? The spot-the-sample brilliance of BombSquad era Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys' "Paul's Boutique" vanished rapidly as it became to expensive to clear all the soundbites. If you were going to pay top dollar for the sample, you better base the whole damn song around it, as I explain to my 15 year old daughter, in my best David Spade voice: "Oh, yeah. 'Bootylicious.' I liked it the first time I heard it, when it was called 'Edge Of Seventeen.'"

Will that happen to us?

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