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What’s so important about the story of early LA rap is not that these guys started out deciding that they would create “Fuck tha Police,” or, for that matter, “Findum, Fuckum, and Flee.” The point is that they worked to create a platform for themselves—for Black youths—to say whatever they wanted to say. That’s their most powerful legacy.
There will always be political and social unrest, but a pandemic filters everything—we are all characters in its story.
On the train back to Grand Central, the city itself did not feel enough for me. I longed for the presence of another human being—a person I can touch, feel, and shelter with—to save me from the coming isolation of the second wave.
The Abbey of Crime offers none of the playful indulgences of the arcade; you never blast away at marauding aliens like in Space Invaders, nor do you swallow the occasional ghost as a super-charged Pac-Man. As Delcan explains, "there were plenty of games of immediate gratification and this was clearly not one of them."
by Gracie Bialecki
Imagine a society where we had empathy for those with opposing views. Imagine a society where we read more and fought less.
