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Oct 02, 2006

Dallas Morning News reports on Crack Week · by Rafi Kam

Sacha Orenstein recently talked to a reporter from the Dallas Morning News for an article they were doing on crack in pop culture.

The article ran yesterday.

“In the ‘80s, when crack hit the hardest, the music about it was overwhelmingly against drug use with the occasional nonjudgmental description of reality thrown in for good measure,” says Sacha Orenstein, editor of the hip-hop blog site Oh Word, by e-mail. Oh Word recently hosted its own “crack week,” dedicated to critical, often irreverent analysis of crack in hip-hop culture.

“By the ‘90s, a lot of rappers began imagining themselves as gangsters out of their favorite crime movies and wrote elaborate, entertaining yet entirely fictional stories about the coke they distributed. Today it seems that a lot of rappers forgot the movie aspect and just boast about the huge amount of cocaine they move as if it were all true.”

The article mentions Rick Ross, Tyrone Biggums, Crackheads Gone Wild, and the videos for Love’s Gonna Get Cha and Night of the Living Baseheads.

We’re glad to get noticed but perhaps they should have just published a link to the crack week round-up.

Comments for "Dallas Morning News reports on Crack Week"

  1. sweet


    — Colin C.    Oct 2, 09:15 PM   

  2. Crack ain’t no joke


    — Mo!    Oct 3, 02:53 AM   

  3. CRACK!


    — khal    Oct 3, 08:00 AM