you must not get out much. young people have been blasting music from their phones for almost a decade now

sorry, anybody that tries to recommend Immortal Technique as better, "real" hip-hop cannot be taken seriously. What is this, 2001? Then again, I think that even NPR (and its audience) have more authority on hip-hop than Gizmodo.

what's the alternative you propose then? no media coverage at all? Which means no international attention paid to the brutal crackdown by the Syrian regime? All you want is fluff pieces where everything is safe, peaceful, and mundane? It's so easy to be jaded and snarky behind your computer screen, but *I* am grateful…

best response on here. very well put, and I agree whole-heartedly!

It's hilarious that you go around calling people uneducated when you don't even know the difference between the possessive "your" and the contraction "you're". Dipshit.

calm down buddy! it's just computers.

lmao... that's pathetic — paralyzed by germ phobia, you are reduced to hovering your ass over the bowl. you do realize that with regard to germs, toilet seats are cleaner than a subway handrail, and that upscale restaurants tend to be more fastidious about cleaning? I'd hate to see you in a third world country,…

why don't you go complain about cars too, because I'm pretty sure automobile exhaust poisons more air than cigarettes. Or perhaps just wash the sand out of your nether regions.