Where's a Dopefiend When You Need One?

For the first time in over four years, I’m without a car while at my own home for more than two days. Even when Bomobile II died in that terrible fire, insurance came through with a rental within three days.
But since my negligence allowed the brakes on Bomobile III to become broke, I’m stuck at the land without the ability to go anywhere. A lot of you jokers tend to say I don’t go anywhere anyway, but that’s not the case. I just don’t go anywhere when I have work to do.
But right now, the schedule’s open and I wanna finishing decorating the Palatial Bomaniland Estate (PBE). I found some great photos, and I wanna get frames and hang them like any other decorating junkie would. Not having this car is seriously stifling my creativity, man. Really, this photo must go up on the wall soon.
Some folks have been kind enough to offer a vehicle, but it needs inspection. Too bad I swore off ridin’ dirty in ’01.
Why the dopefiend? Something called the dopefiend rental. Look it up. It’s a really terrible thing to do, but I’d do it in a heartbeat right now.
(Hyperbole, Old Man. Don’t get too worried.)
But I just picked up some work, so we’re good. I’m going to do an interesting look at coaching in college basketball, which just may offend a lot of people. That’s how I like it.
Also, somebody’s man Darrick Z. Jackson at the Boston Globe is at it again. This time’s on the use of the word “nigga” in hip hop. I just know that he and I will agree on very little, and you know I won’t agree with him on this one.
You can debate this point in the comments if you want, but this is the question I want to raise–why he is scrutinizing the words or rappers and record label executives as though they are intellectuals? So you expect me to believe that 50 Cent would say something that could be easily refuted? For real?
You mean that Russell Simmons didn’t offer some advancement of critical race theory when he talks about saying “nigga?” Word up?
Why do I make that point? Because the idea that rappers are supposed to be the beginning of the revolution or some Renaissance is ridiculous and it’s a burden that only rappers have to deal with. We don’t pick apart the nonsensical things those singers say about rap. We don’t write in newspapers about the stuff R. Kelly writes and sings (though we do laugh at him whenever we can).
Personally, I’d love to hear what Redd Foxx would have to say about calling people fags. Something tells me it wouldn’t be any more or less intelligent than what Russell and 50 said.
Really, has any group been simultaneously assumed to be stupid but expected to well above-average analysis of the universe? Strange.
Why do we subject rappers to this additional scrutiny? Is it because rappers have brought this onto themselves? Or is this just more bias against hip hop music and the people that feel connected to it?
Hope that made sense. Stir-caused insanity is doing me in.