Yeah, the last week of LeBron’s season to me was better, more dominate basketball than anything Westbrook is doing. Like a 25/8/8 in 30/32 minutes shooting 70%. But, most of deadspin’s basketball coverage is writing 100-300 words about a boxscore they quickly scanned the next morning.

To me it’s an advance stat that is actually the greatest argument for his play this season: his usage is over 41%. THAT’S INSANELY HIGH to still be doing what he’s doing.

Ah, nice.

If you want to go into debt, get that 12 volume set of ‘Complete Motown Singles’. Each set it like 5-8 cds worth. For all of them, it’ll cost you like 1200 bucks, but I can’t think of anything more worth it. You don’t get the full scope on the smaller collections. I mean, now Edwin Starr on the smaller ones... his…

Agree to disagree—his best track ‘I Heard it Through the Grapevine’ isn’t even by him (it’s from the main genius of Motown’s second period: Norman Whitfield) and his best work is favored by the LP-centric crowd which, IMHO misses the point about Motown a little).

Well, Felder is no slouch. But still, the Jackson 5's ‘Darling Dear’ has a better bassline IMHO. Trust me, if we all just bow to Jamerson now it’ll save a lot of time.

Toussaint might be the most underrated; but then you’d need to get into Todd Rundgren, Curtis Mayfield (that album of Mayfield originals for other people ‘Curtis Mayfield’s Chicago Soul’ is great and only the tip of the iceberg), Laura Nyro, Lou Reed, etc. A real wealth there.

Yes, because how Smokey phrases ‘Sub-st-tute’ is the reason Townshend wrote the sublime ‘Substitute’ single. You take it out, you change rock history (what was the Who song the Sex Pistols covered? ....)

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Variety doesn’t mean a thing.

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that’s the face of a grown man that killed someone. He should legit be in jail, instead he gets to be Mika’s cuckold.

Reading these, all I can think is the Emperor in Star Wars urging all these white pieces of shit to let ‘the anger flow through them’, only it isn’t making them stronger or America either.

To me it’s a color thing. Curtis Mayfield is called the ‘black Bob Dylan’, while in Chicago it’s understood that Bob Dylan is the ‘white Curtis Mayfield’. The victors get to write history unfortunately.

Motown was hundreds of great artists, but really like 6 true geniuses: Smokey, Holland/Dozier/Holland, James Jamison, Stevie Wonder.

Only the narrow ‘LP-centric’ crowd over looks people like Smokey Robinson (Curtis Mayfield is often similarly given shortsighted appraisals) (which the writer of this piece sorta does too), forever realizing that for much of pop’s glorious history masterpieces happened at 2 or 3 minute intervals. When this is…

You need to read ‘The Art of the Deal’ (or not, lol). You don’t start high. He’s broke I’d imagine, or at least doesn’t have much liquid assets. Thus, you start at say 50 million in cash (if not lower). He’d take it in a New York minute, no need to waste the other 1.95 billion.

If Michael Carter-Williams and Drake had a child, it’d look like this kid. I can’t get past that really.

Right, exactly. It’s a total false equivalency. Like Jim Crow existed and was terrible, but you don’t get to equate it with the racism, in say, Nazi Germany of the same period. The truth is in the details, which for someone like Trump who can barely sustain a thought over 5 complete sentences is asking way to much.