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The New Orleans mayoral race will be settled by a May 20 runoff.
I still haven’t checked that Juvenile album but Noah says it’s awful. Aside: What kind of twin brothers have inane IM conversations with each other? Shouldn’t you 2 be able to use telepathy for such things?
Today’s NY Times speaks up on Juvenile and other New Orleans hip-hop and approaches the subject via the topic of popularity vs respectability.
Bloggers from a forgotten city keep the word out: “we are not ok”