Not really, they're both about the essential contradiction between what 'critics' think hip hop should be and what fans in general want to hear. They're both essentially a 'fuck you' to criticisms of their music as somehow not 'real' hip hop.

Yeah its a slightly different view, although in a lot of ways it was very similar, it was an idea that hip hop was going 'soft'. People were making tracks on Synths with a tune, instead of sampling like real hip hop should be, and guys like Jay Z were rapping about similar topics, but they weren't grimy like Wu Tang.…

Yeah there is some of that for sure, I guess its hard to measure whether its better or worse than it used to be, but I definitely think youtube and twitter have made us more aware of the complaints. I think maybe we're also more likely to think that record sales are a good measure of artistic quality and so people get…

and he's laying all the blame on "critics?"

Yeah it is kinda ironic that Common has been pretty damn big since then.

I can literally not remember a time when people were not making the same arguments, it's weird to think about now, but there were complaints that those 90's Golden age rappers were not on the same level as KRS One, Public Enemy, Kool G Rap, Rakim. it was a minority then sure, but its still a minority now, they just…

Critics want to mention that they miss when hip-hop was rappin'/Motherfucker, if you did, then Killer Mike would be platinum

Would you apply that to any other job?

7. All Saints' Melanie Blatt's succinct tweet that Kills is just a "twat." All Saints!

"You know, I own the biggest vegan company in the world."

Burneko's posting

He's no Eric Cantona

Yeah the Reuters report http://www.reuters.com/investigates/a… is heartbreaking, but seems to have made little difference, which is fairly unsurprising and very sad.

You need your own personal vocoder to make it work.

Yeah, no forward passes in Rugby, but the competition for the ball would probably be fairly similar, since there's only so many ways to fight over a ball on the floor.

Jesus Christ, that Reuters investigation is one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever read. Most of the 'parents' seem to think what they did is OK, the authorities essentially don't care and these poor children are having their lives destroyed.

Thank God we live in a post-racial America.

Time, like the Big Y's In-Vince-able pizza is a flat circle.

I guess my point would be that believing in something doesn't make it more or less true. Of course we should be aware of the limitations of statistics, but we should also be aware of the limits of subjective observation. The driving force of analytics comes from the opinion of practitioners being completely wrong…

One paper arguing the 'hot hand' is real does not make it so. Here is another study which argues that even accounting for new information such as defensive pressure, there is no evidence of 'hot hand' http://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… The point is not that either are necessarily wrong, simply that this one…