De La Soul Will Snuff You

So if “hipster rappers” are so “hipster” why are they getting arrested? Just recently Naledge and Double O were in some deep caca out in Arizona. O got his ass beat by a bunch of bitch ass bodyguards and Naledge got arrested trying to defend his boy or something like that. Whichever the case the label they have as “hipsters” is false. Just because they dress a certain way and real hipsters (ya know the ones that live in Williamsburg and soap is their Kryptonite) love their tunes. It’s a case of that pesky labeling us journalists like to do.

Some of the gulliest MCs have been so-called positive rappers. Go ahead, I dare you to step to any of those De La Soul dudes. They’d lose their “Buddy” demeanor at the drop of a hat. At the end of the day a man is just a man—if provoked he will defend himself. Even Latinos have been victims of labeling by the media and government. “Latino” is better than “Hispanic” but is it really identifying all of us. I don’t think so.

Uno,

Jesus