(First — my notification list has been acting up.  Check back for the last few entries, please.) There’s something that, as a sometimes-but-forever music critic, that’s always fascinated me about Biggie Smalls — he’s rap deity, even though he’s only got one unequivocally classic record.  He’s as much a mixtape god as rap superstar, but …

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…and I saw little Kennard from The Wire. You probably know him as the sorry, disrespectful little snot nosed hopper that killed Omar. Or, you gleefully recall watching Michael beat him good and pulpy. Either way, he was on Law and Order. Turns out he was playing a Haitian slave, brought to America to work …

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As you can tell, it’s another exciting evening of show preparation here at the Estate. If you listen close, you can hear me playing the Kool and the Gang in the background. Actually, it would be Bubba Sparxxx tonight. Bubba’s the oddest of cases. You’d think white folks would love another white rapper, right? Not …

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…a young brother got it bad cuz he’s brown.  Damn.