Drama Queens of Hip-Hop

Greg Tate’s “In Praise of Assholes” gives Kanye West and 50 Cent a critical beatdown:

Mr. West and Mr. Cent may indeed be assholes, but they’re symbolic assholes who remind us that American Darwinism has produced a species of Negro Male who can now exploit his fetishized vernacular aura as profitably as multinational corporations can the minerals in your whole damn ancestral homeland. Mr. Cent will never win the NAACP Image Award he deserves for this achievement, mainly because that lot’s more interested in “burying” the word nigga or “redeeming” Michael Vick’s dog-mangling ass than applauding or even analyzing it.

I love this guy’s writing.