{"id":2204,"date":"2010-12-17T11:48:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T19:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2010-12-17T12:34:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T20:34:29","slug":"i-realize-there-are-no-women-on-this-list-and-i-feel-even-worse-about-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2010\/12\/17\/i-realize-there-are-no-women-on-this-list-and-i-feel-even-worse-about-that\/","title":{"rendered":"I realize there are no women on this list and I feel even worse about that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some MCs I really like, more or less in order of rising admiration:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Snoop<\/li>\n<li>Gift of Gab<\/li>\n<li>Big Pun<\/li>\n<li>All the guys in Jurassic 5<\/li>\n<li>MC Frontalot<\/li>\n<li>Q-Tip<\/li>\n<li>MF DOOM<\/li>\n<li>Dre<\/li>\n<li>Big Boi<\/li>\n<li>MCA<\/li>\n<li>Aesop Rock<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But here are my favorite MCs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eminem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which, I mean, dammit.  He is a bad person!  He is a product of the same old system wherein white musicians from a black art form are cast in a near-messianic light!  I want to have better taste than that, but I don&#8217;t.  I came to this realization while listening to Recovery, an album composed almost entirely of the same self-excoriation and fury that marked &#8220;The Way I Am,&#8221; a song I am still not over.  Except now he&#8217;s doing the whole thing in double-time.  <i>No one should be able to move their mouth that fast.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The only person who both raps and rivals Eminem for the #1 spot in my heart is Andre 3000, but despite his skills, it&#8217;s almost difficult to think of him as an MC.  Big Boi is an excellent rapper, but Andre&#8217;s just so much more than that.  When I want to listen to a rap album, I might put on Speakerboxxx or Lucious Leftfoot, but not The Love Below or Stankonia:  they&#8217;re too musical, too much a part of the pop\/rap\/hip-hop slipstream.  Even if you do include him, though, three of my top four are still white, which basically makes me as bad a person as Marshall Mathers.  No wonder I identify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some MCs I really like, more or less in order of rising admiration: Snoop Gift of Gab Big Pun All the guys in Jurassic 5 MC Frontalot Q-Tip MF DOOM Dre Big Boi MCA Aesop Rock But here are my favorite MCs: Eminem Which, I mean, dammit. He is a bad person! He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,56,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angst","category-music","category-shame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/2208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}