Episode 44: Where’s The Beef?
The Overthinkers go through some listener feedback, pick on the host, talk racial normativity, and engage in an epic rap battle on the merits of Kanye.
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Hip Hop on Overthinking It
Illmatic and the Crisis of Peaking Young
Is it better to peak early and produce something legendary, or build slowly and culminate in something merely excellent?
The 10 Easiest Things Dance Songs Ask of You
Go ahead. Brush your shoulders off. It doesn’t get any easier. Or does it?
Kanye West Doesn’t Suck Ass: Even the Superficial Raps are Super Official
If this analysis of the themes developed in Kanye’s lyrics doesn’t convince you that he is a better rapper than many other Top 40 regulars, it is worth remembering just how low the bar is.
Kanye West has never seen RoboCop
I am fairly certain that Kanye West has never ever seen any of the three RoboCop movies, even though one of the songs on the album is named after the film franchise’s titular character.
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The Ghostface of Christmas Past, Present, and Future
A brief tour through three common hip hop holiday tropes (and no shortage of ho, ho, hoes).
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Episode 13: Crossing Sections off the Map
Wrather, Lee, and Fenzel overthink peak oil and peak rock, the meaning of hip-hop, the ringtone bubble, politics, pornography, and artistic protectionism and offer a new feature, OTI picks, while Wrather manages to say something offensive to every nationality, ethnic … Continued
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Great Moments in Racial Discourse #1: “Vato” by Snoop Dogg
According to Wikipedia, on August 30, 2006, Pharrell Williams himself said on BET that the new song he’d produced would not only show off his gangsta side, but also tackle the issue of racial conflict in Los Angeles between African … Continued
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The Bling Bubble
“Da Game is to be told, not to be sold.” — Snoop Dogg, 14th Annual Conference on Hip Hop Securitization In 2003, I identified what I believed to be a speculative bubble for bling bling — the shine, the scrilla, … Continued
“Watch the YouTubes. Watch the f***ing blogs.” (Ice-T Responds to Soulja Boy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7FhIUuo6tE We at OTI were pretty much last on last summer’s Soulja Boy bandwagon, so to rectify the situation, we are taking a pro-active stance in reporting Soulja-boy related news. In case you haven’t heard, Ice-T be beefin wit Soulja … Continued
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