“Yeah my drop sick…and my knot thick,” boasts Li’l Wayne in “A Milli.” Sounds great, but what the hell does it mean? Rap Exegesis, a hip-hop translation service, has the answer to this and other lyrical conundrums.
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The Written World
The Written World is a five part radio series put together by Melyvn Bragg as part of the In Our Time BBC radio project. The programs look at the history of written word, and how it has shaped our intellectual history.
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She was the shadow of the waxwork lain
A waxwork being billed as “the most accurate likeness of author Jane Austen” ever created has been unveiled at her museum in Bath, England.
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1963 Was a Nice Year for Criticism
The Men Who Stare at Goats
What would the child of The Big Lebowski characters The Dude (Jeff Bridges) and Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) look like? Maybe like Lt. Col. Django (Bridges, again), one of the characters in Grant Heslov's The Men Who Stare at Goats, set to release in November, a comedy about the U.S. military's attempt to train psychic soldiers (based on the book by Jon Ronson).
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A Free Scotland
What would happen if Scotland seceded from the United Kingdom? Check back in 2014 to find out.
Original Sin Malfunction
There are a lot of nipples on the New Yorker's website, right now.
Wassup dogg,
One of the RapEx editors here giving you love back
I’m a big fan of your writing, let us know if there’s any songs you’d like to see put up