Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas' Illmatic.

stype_ones · Post by **stype_ones** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:29 am

Can't wait for this...

http://www.amazon.com/Born-Use-Mics-Rea ... 0465002110

Mindbender Futurama · Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:41 am

another one for the collection.

he's an interesting cat, that Michael Eric Dyson

cenzi · Post by **cenzi** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:07 am

Mindbender Futurama wrote: he's an interesting cat, that Michael Eric Dyson

fuck Bender.. you are ALWAYS wrong. holy fuck.

RAZAH CUTZ · Post by **RAZAH CUTZ** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:51 am

Dyson usually comes correct with his books....I'll drop some dough on this....

step one · Post by **step one** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:29 am

Is there anything left to be said about this album? Its been written about and analysed so much its ridiculous.
The only thing that makes me think it might be worth a look is Bobbito's name on the cover.

Prosper · Post by **Prosper** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:05 am

pradadon wrote:Can't wait for this...

LONDON! · Post by **LONDON!** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:38 am

Mindbender Futurama wrote:
he's an interesting cat, that Michael Eric Dyson

cornel west too

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 8:19 am

will cop

Echo Leader · Post by **Echo Leader** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:04 am

Philaflava wrote:will cop

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:12 am

The 33 and a 1/3 book on Illmatic is already out.

I'll cop these, of course, but I have a feeling it will only inspire me to write a response.

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:46 am

How is the the 33 and a 1/3 book? I never see them in the chain book stores, which is really my only local option.

stype_ones · Post by **stype_ones** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:34 am

Philaflava wrote:How is the the 33 and a 1/3 book? I never see them in the chain book stores, which is really my only local option.

It's not that good. Someone else should have written it, because it is full of inaccuracies.

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:49 am

pradadon wrote:
Philaflava wrote:How is the the 33 and a 1/3 book? I never see them in the chain book stores, which is really my only local option.
It's not that good. Someone else should have written it, because it is full of inaccuracies.

Fuck them then.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:40 am

Thun wrote: I'll cop these, of course, but I have a feeling it will only inspire me to write a response.

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:44 am

drizzle wrote:
Thun wrote: I'll cop these, of course, but I have a feeling it will only inspire me to write a response.

Faggot.

ALASKA · Post by **ALASKA** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:44 am

will buy

cenzi · Post by **cenzi** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:23 pm

Michael Eric Dyson?

C'mon son.

He's only 2 degress away from being KRS

Mindbender Futurama · Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:59 pm

cenzi wrote:
Mindbender Futurama wrote: he's an interesting cat, that Michael Eric Dyson
fuck Bender.. you are ALWAYS wrong. holy fuck.

yeesh.

"interesting" is a flexible word.

let's just say i got my eye on MED, and not in no :omggay:

way. i seen him speak at a conference once, I met the man. he's many things. nuff said.

CraigHollister · Post by **CraigHollister** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:44 pm

Philaflava wrote:How is the the 33 and a 1/3 book? I never see them in the chain book stores, which is really my only local option.

if you read the XXL article on the making of it, then you're good. At the end it goes over the tracks in the same format with some different info from the XXL making of article, but I skipped everything else

supnick · Post by **supnick** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 3:39 am

might get this

illmatics is top 5

step one · Post by **step one** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 7:07 am

supnick wrote:might get this

illmatics is top 5

clark bent · Post by **clark bent** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:36 am

little more than half way thru this

psuedo intellectual crap in some spots

heavy handed in others (its just a rap album for god sakes)

but overall a worthy read imo

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:56 am

clark bent wrote:little more than half way thru this

psuedo intellectual crap in some spots

heavy handed in others (its just a rap album for god sakes)

but overall a worthy read imo

Co-signed.

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:22 am

forgot this even dropped. amazon has this for $10.

clark bent · Post by **clark bent** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:46 am

shit for ten bucks its almost worth getting just for the OG source review as well as the OG schecter and bobitto interviews

yeah i know everyone has seen them and they can be gotten easily online but its nice to have them in this form rather than on a computer screen or as a print out

ALASKA · Post by **ALASKA** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:00 am

picked up the 33 and 1/3 book a few weeks back. its on double deck after i finish world war z and the david cross book.

EMCEE DARTH MALEK · Post by **EMCEE DARTH MALEK** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:00 am

my friend took a class that had the lyrics to NY state of mind printed out & annotated in the textbook
most of the annotations were to explain which gun nas was talking about

Reason · Post by **Reason** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 12:07 pm

say what you will about dyson but he knows his rap and he is a GREAT speaker

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:07 pm

Reason wrote:say what you will about dyson but he knows his rap and he is a GREAT speaker

His chapter is easily the best in the book. Many of the other contributors blatantly attempted to jack his style, with FAIL ensuing for the most part.

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:14 pm

There's a Nelly video showing Nelly sliding a credit card through a girl's ass crack. Dyson wrote an essay about it. Does anyone have that shit? I've been Googlin' this and cannot find it.

He's also a pretentious douchebag.

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