This just in … Snoop Dogg is planning to write … not one book, but seven.
This is good news, although we’re still waiting for the rumored Black Book by Jay-Z and Nas’s mythical autobiography, so I wouldn’t bet money on any of these seven books actually existing at any point soon. And I’m kinda confused about this statement that he wants these books to set a good example for kids. Snoop thinks he’s got seven volumes worth of good example in him? We are mystified but curious.
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Well, I’m beginning to see the light Some people work very hard, But still they never get it right. Well I’m beginning to see the light. Wine in the morning, and some breakfast at night. I’m beginning to see the light. Here we go again, playing the fool again. Here we go again, acting hard …
Slovenian philosopher and Litkicks favorite Slavoj Zizek has been exchanging letters with Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot, who is in jail for staging this protest in a Moscow cathedral: The letters have now been widely published, and are well worth reading for their vivid energy as well as for the stark questions they raise about …
I’ve been trying for a while now to come to terms with the emergence of Ta-Nehisi Coates as the clearest voice of black defiance and determination during the police violence outrages of the past couple years. The appeal of Coates’s basic message of empowerment through self-awareness is obvious, but I have a big problem with …