Of course I disagree with him, but I think there’s something to be said for cheering on and incentivizing violence of a certain type and just expecting athletes to never let any of their rage and aggression bleed over into other areas of life. Everyone makes mistakes, and I’m not surprised when people who are paid to…

My stepdad was a former heavyweight boxer who used to beat me with weightlifting belts and knives when I didn’t perform chores well enough. I never saw him hit my mom, but I suspect he did. The last time I saw him alive, I told him if he hit my 2 year-old sister again I was going to kill him. A freak accident took him…

With Kweli, Immortal Technique just did a tour playing pretty much the same venues (or slightly smaller/fewer shows) that RTJ play. I don’t know how their ticket sales went but RTJ sold out almost every show they did last year in advance and in several cities they added more shows that also sold out. They’ve also…

I feel like this is copied from reddit or misc or something, unless Oberst posts there.. I definitely read a story exactly like this online from the point of view of the guy going to dinner at his Gf’s house.

I'm 35 and my face makes me look about 100 lbs bigger than I am. I long for the day I can get lean enough to have the haggard face and not look 15 years-old when I shave.

Is there some sort of correlation between playing soccer and going bald in your 20s?

I’ve never had a kid who didn’t love cream cheese. Maybe they’d prefer it on a bagel, pretzel, cinnamon roll, cheesecake, or any of numerous pastries/desserts instead of an oreo. Maybe.

They were probably talking about their common interest in beards.

Someone please tell my wife this reaction is OK and "normal." She has held over my head for 8 years that my reaction to her being pregnant was not spontaneously overjoyed.

Brown's dad is who all my friends use when they are accused of rape. Seriously.

True. I'm sure the friends aspect (and Mike being signed under TI for a time) could factor in.

I know adults have played High School teens for a long time, but I think I would have a hard time watching someone who just spent the last 5 years playing somewhat of an adultish semi-grownup on primetime , who apparently aged-out of even pursuing college and has a kid brother in college, now playing a high-schooler…

I'm not saying you are wrong, but it seems backwards to me in general ghostwriting hip-hopeconomics. Mike is a middle-class rapper and RAP music sold like 33,000 copies. Pl3dge probably sold 1/2 that. I'm sure he doesn't have a ghostwriter budget, and I generally think of guys on TI's level (commercially, not skill)…

I don't think he does. Pretty sure RTJ is all done with Mike and El-P in the same room, and I don't think Tip is sending Mike notes. I also know he has turned down El-P beats for his solo work.

"TI writes for Mike."

That's her groupie name?

Sometimes exposure is effective for dealing with infidelity. A faithful spouse should not feel ashamed for being cheated on. The idea of exposure, however, does not involve physical assault.

I guess Beck doesn't get Top 40 play these days but he's big on alternative rock stations- who seem to break 90% of hit songs that don't fit comfortably into specific genres . That Blue Moon song might as well have been "Royals" or (insert name of other song that was played on alternative rock stations for 2 years and…

I always thought only someone like Milton Berle qualified for eggplant status.

Does Allen Iverson play baseball? Perhaps the O's could have all 3 of the 76ers 1996 draft picks on their team.