The June issue has Snoop Dogg on the cover. Good for him. My respect for the man continues to grow.
Source editors are really the mag's guardians.
Yeah, Seyfu, I'm compelled to call out you and your staff of junior politicians. And yeah, it is fucked up that certain white kids are more hiphop than certain black kids. Farley and fellow essayist Dalton Higgins, meanwhile, make clear that they have little idea what hiphop culture is, besides that they're definitely a big part of it, word up. Neither writer even attempts a reasonable accounting of the big, historic differences here, or bothers to warn against a repeat of the mass abandonments of black artforms by the black audience once white players came forward with their own interpretations. Neither ventures a guess as to what Eminem is saying to his rabid following of mallrats, or offers any suppositions about whether that has anything to do with the message sent by purely black hiphop.