my sentiments exactly
DJ Sickamore: "If I heard one more mixtape rapper talk about "bringing New York back" I would've personally hijacked an airplane and crashed it right into Canal Street." Touche!
Ben McGrath: Can we make a petition that Sasha is the only New Yorker staffer who gets to write about rappers?
sorry
but the mcgrath story is good, informative and non judgemental- ive read and written tons of these stories(and in fact was up at shot 97 the afternoon of the shooting doing one for xxl) and this one works-its not for a rap audience its for a general interest mag and gets the job done, nicely. - sometimes it helps to have an outsider because they're not invested in looking cool being friends with the artists, etc.