Intellectual my ass. I've read Deluze, too, can I be a conceptual House music DJ? His reading of Deluze is nothing but simplistic. He gets stress in NYC for being bitter and unapproachable.
Mike Ladd / Anti-pop Consortium doesn't get any flack for being African American and an intellectual. The main problem is making the music cohesive. Cyclone Wehner wrote: > Spooky doesn't see himself > as mainstream at all, in fact he gets a lot of flack for his intellectual > approach from the NY establishment. He sees it like, why can't an > African-American man be an intellectual, a conceptualist, I don't want to do > what the mainstream deems to be 'Black music' like gangsta rap or whatever. > He is big on contemporary French philosophy (more influential than you'd > think) and sees himself as intervening in those discourses.
