For the record, I am no expert on hip hop culture. I enjoy some of it and have fond memories of my youth in the eighties when it was just starting to enter the main stream. I remember tuning in to 104 WDKX (the station’s owner named it after Douglas, King and X) to listen to Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Flash and, of course, this young man not much older than myself going by the name of LL Cool J. I have enjoyed it, but ultimately consider myself more of a punk rock person. With all that in mind, I hope I do the subject justice in the five hundred words or less that I normally allow myself. Continue reading →