Today In Rap And Books

Here is a very enjoyable video of the young Brooklyn rapper Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire talking about books — it includes him reading an excerpt from his all-time favorite, Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist. Here is a very strange video for a song called “Flight Confirmation” that the Los Angeles producer The Alchemist made with rappers Danny Brown and Schoolboy Q — it includes some material that may not be safe for you to watch at work. Here is a very good essay written by the aphorist James Guida about four recent books written by rappers — it includes the sentence, “By now the Queensbridge duo has several albums to their name, the most admired of which are Hell on Earth and The Infamous.” Which I will cite because of the glaring gramatical error it contains. Because I like to dunk N+1’s pigtails into the inkwell on my desk.