Don't know if anyone's mentioned this but; that wall painting at the intern's apartment looks like an image from the comic Kabuki, by David Mack.

yep, that "super special search engine" is a way to track Dexter's computer activity.

so, like the end of the Hannibal novel then.

I always appreciate a Virtuosity reference.

It would be in NYC, since hip hop was born there.  Miami gets an instant disqualification for being the hometown of Vanilla Ice. I don't see why people would be killing each other over a glorified version of the Source Awards.  They'd ideally start inducting the late 70s/early 80s pioneers, people from the Wild Style…

Let's take a ride on the wayback machine to 1982.  Early punk band turned hip hop act.

I'm a recent convert to the Small Faces, I think it's criminal how overlooked they are.  Plant was obviously massively influenced by Marriott's take on You Need Lovin'  Apparently people are starting to learn about them now because GTA V's trailer used a track from Ogden's Nut Gone Flake.