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>2) all of his pop culture references were of the things you'd
>NEVER hear in the hood. i once saw a concert in which he sang
>BJ Thomas' "hey why dont you play one of those "somebody done
>somebody wrong song"---i was like "waitaminute!!!"

In an interview on swedish radio, he was going on about the Who and Janis Joplin and other stuff. Obviously, I know nothing about the "hood" and what people listen to there but I thought it was a bit strange because rappers at that time-as opposed to the post-Kanye era when it was suddenly cool to namedrop stuff from europe and sweden and Coldplay-rarely mentioned anything not "black" in terms of cultural status. That said, it doesn't beat Godfather Don talking about his love for norwegian black metal around the same time, that was just WTF?