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Uploaded by on Apr 23, 2009

A quick follow-up on the Gold Chain issue..

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  • I love, on your website, the detail with which you broke down the correctness of your argument about gold jewelry. If I were into saying things like that, i'd say you pwned, but I'm not, so I won't. By the way, you told me a year ago you were gonna do a video about All About the Beat. Where is it? I wanna hear someone intelligent and eloquent defend hip-hop to McWhorter. I haven't heard anyone I'd expect, like KRS or Chuck D, challenge him.

  • funny i just saw John McWhorter in my local barnes & noble, he was sitting next to me at a reading by William Julius Wilson.. he left before i had a chance to talk to him tho (not that i'm sure i would have)

  • I actually enjoy his linguistics books, so I might have mentioned that. Now, William Julius Wilson and John McWhorter, there's a video. I'd watch, favorite, rate, share, mirror and triple comment on that.

  • yes I feel the same, and what i'd really like is to talk with him about prescriptice vs. descriptive linguistics, especially as they relate to people's judgments of hip-hop slang and usage of words like "conversate" that are dismissed as "not real words" though they are no less functional than any other word..

  • "prescriptive," obvs

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  • he's an internet superhero.

  • Smh, he's a radio dj for ney yorks longest running underground hiphop radio station, Underground RailRoad aka Jay Smooth.

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  • So... we will never get the follow up to the follow up, ain't we?

  • @illdoc1 There's so much here that I'd love to talk about but don't have the time or space to respond too, so I'd just like to add that outside of Hip-Hop, this is what bothers me about internet grammar Nazis.

  • TELL THE TRUTH AND SHAME THE DEVIL !!!

  • thats jkis cuz u said that in the other video how rappers buying gold chains is not even noticed and an ivestment is like gold bars..come on people!!

  • ... also, u buy 'gold' these days the way you buy stocks. they don't come to your house with a truck loaded up with gold bricks and bring you a sack- full.. smh

  • After Detox that was Gold man ey topic Gold HAHAHAHAHAH

  • Think he works on a radio show?

  • whahah, you so right :P

    Does he even have a job??? LOL

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