06/23/2016 · 1:29 pm
You can offend a rapper the same way you can offend a cartoonist; by implying that their career “looks easy”. Cartoonists must compete in the public eye with Internet doodlers who draw in their ample free time, and rappers have to battle the false impression that they’re just boopity-bopping over a beat loop.
Before hip-hop and rap were widely understood, they were exploited as “novelty” records; a passing trend, not something that would dominate and rend asunder every other type of fucking music on earth. Rap was not a “lifestyle”. It was a fad, like the hula hoop and the Twist. So, like many other musical fads before it, rap became a haven for bad comedy.
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Tagged as #fbf, #tbt, 1980s, 1983, Bill Saluga, Buckner & Garcia, Caddyshack, comedy, disco, fake rap, Fat Boys, Freddy Krueger, Gwar, Kurtis Blow, MTV, music, New Jersey, Pat Boone, rap, Rodney Dangerfield, sellouts, stand-up comedy, The Gong Show, vinyl, white rap
06/02/2016 · 2:54 pm
I’m not going to bore you with more boasting about how I can draw better than any contemporary “web comic” artist out there. I’m going to bore you with an explanation why.
From INVISIBLE LEGENDS (unpublished)
I’ve got The Jizz.
You could set out right now to be the greatest cartoonist in the world, spend billions of dollars, and you’d still never top me. You don’t have The Jizz. I do. Continue reading →
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Tagged as Adam Hughes, Alan Moore, Bands I Useta Like, Basil Wolverton, behind the scenes, Berni Wrightson, Bettie Page, comix, Dave Gibbons, Dave Sim, Dave Stevens, Drew Friedman, Harlan Ellison, jail, Jim Blanchard, Kurtis Blow, Laurie Lipton, MAD magazine, MC Ren, Mike Patton, Mike the Pod, Mozart, music, Poddism, Poddist philosophy, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rakim Allah, rap, Rick Griffin, Rolling Stone, The Rocketeer, Watchmen, Wm. Stout
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