It’s Like Landing on “Planet of the Jews”
Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel
Next Post In Jerusalem
Leaving today. Will holler from the Holy Land. Love y’all! –D
Meet My New Girlfriend
She dissed me in high school. Then, when I was in college, she changed her mind. She caught the vapors. But by then, I had found someone new. So I passed her by. I don’t regret it. But I always wondered how it would have been if I hadn’t. I met her again recently. We’d […]
Minding My Business – Part Three
[The conclusion of a three part series] Hip-hop is where it is today, and looks the way it does today — not because of a diabolical conspiracy — but largely because of its own success, its own mainstreaming. Hip-hop once existed in isolation, in a political and cultural incubator (one that allowed for Native Tongues, […]
Minding My Business – Part Two
[A continuation of a previous entry] In the early 90s when two white Pop radio programmers did what hundreds of their Black counterparts at Urban radio were unwilling to do — program hip-hop aggressively — they shared a quite unexpected consequence. Keith Naftaly and Rick Cummings suddenly became the voice of young people of color. […]