In the Chicago Tribune (registration required), Clarence Page writes about the mess that is hip-hop, and meditates on a rapper who is trying to market a drink called "Pimp Juice".
Now pimp glorification has come to center stage in rapperland. The video for popular rapper 50 Cent's mega-hit "PIMP" portrays him as a novice pimp before the grand pimp council, presided over by rapper Snoop Dogg with his real-life sequined "spiritual adviser," Bishop Don Magic Juan at his side.
Will someone remind me why the Times has Krugman rather than Page writing for them? Then again, while Krugman was writing for Slate, he was quite good. He didn't go hysterical until his Times column. Perhaps Page should stay where he is.Posted by sjostrom on September 15, 2003 06:47 AM
