Make no mistake I consider eskay and n8tion from Nah’Right my close friends. In internetspeak that means we e-mail each other and G-chat occasionally. Nah’Right is also the site that this website along with the other associated online projects I have worked on owes a debt to their popularity and interweb prestige (read: No money yet, but tons of impressions). When my homey at UnKut threw me the link to Brandon Soderberg’s blog No Trivia where he threw Nah’Right under the bus I almost laughed out loud. To keep from crying of course.
Brandon Soderberg is definitely one of the writers that will be the Ira Gitler, Ralph Featherman and Nat Hentoff (I would add the Stanley Crouch but we all know that is just ridiculous) of the cRap music genre. I won’t say Hip-Hop genre since there isn’t a strong connection to the comprehensive Hip-Hop movement in relation to fashion, dance, art, religion, commerce and society on the No Trivia blog, but that fact isn’t here nor there in twenty years when no one else knows the difference and I am surely deceased. So this makes me wonder why a future professor like Brandon has the need to take shots at the throne. Any boom bap dinosaur aficionado could tell you, “kings lose crowns, but teachers stay intelligent.”
Brandon lost points in my book with his later comments to Abe Beame in the subsequent thread. That was unnecessary and damaging to several people, including Brandon himself, who should get a timeout penalty from G-chatting with people until the appropriate time is served. I should further include that I feel a little ways towards Brandon since I sent him some shit in the mail and he hasn’t acknowledged receipt. Don’t get my words or emotions twisted though I do not like the animosity shown towards Nah’Right because if there is any blog site that has made Hip-Hop vis e vis cRap music still enjoyable to me it is to their credit first. ByronCrawford and Crunktastical stand up as well.
I pride myself on the fact that the comment threads here have always had a level of respect and discourse for the content and commenters that you won’t find on all forums. At the end of the day the online community is a relatively small portion of all the people on this planet. We would like to think that we are the majority of thinkers and actors in the population but this just isn’t the case. If we can’t be mindful and respectful of one another who will we bring with us on the spaceship? I salute Nah’Right for being able to be one of the respected voices of the Hip-Hop movement when it matters most. Brandon will have the rest of his life to cash in off rap music when he and the other haters write their encyclopedia.
“Talking silly words on the mic is still irrelevant.
Especially when you’re not college material,
Wake up every morning to your Lucky Charms cereal.”
