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Forum nameThe Lesson
Topic subjectThomas Chatterton Williams
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2980304, Thomas Chatterton Williams
Posted by Cold Truth, Mon Dec-19-16 05:06 PM
I’d like to see if he still believes all that bullshit he spit in “Losing My Cool”.

Just start the interview by asking why he spent an entire book blaming an entire culture for him being an insecure dumbass who gravitated toward every negative stereotype hip hop had to offer and tried to pattern his life after those examples despite having a strong black father in his life trying to steer him in another direction.

Then follow up with a question about the way he tries to have it both ways, like when he blames Biggie for him slapping his girl while he tries to take responsibility.

Then ask him if he put any thought at all into his flawed interpretation and presentation of rap lyrics, such as when he claimed a misogynistic slant of Big Boi’s “Bulldog them hoes like them Georgetown Hoyas” and whether or not he was really stupid enough to miss all the ridiculously obvious wordplay and simile present in Rosa Parks, up to and including the fucking title, and really ingested that one line as a call to objectify and assault women.

You can close by asking if he put any thought at all into the angle of that book since all he really did was further confirm the suspicions and inherent bias of middle aged whites and others with inherently willful ignorance of hip hop on a cultural and historical level because many of them saw rthis book as the gospel truth of the evil that is hip hop.

Perhaps he meant to take a different tact on the book. You can give him a platform to clarify things.