Lance wrote: >I guess one of the inherent problems with discussing the Beasties as rap >artists is the amount of essentialism that must be chopped away before you >can discuss the music they create. Indeed, which is why I wish they qualified as AOTDs to more than a small segment (multiracial but pretty much all college-qualified, I'd assert without backup) of the population... Though I'd enjoy the lesson even more if the previously mentioned criminally underappreciated Michael Franti (Spearhead, Disposable Heroes, Beatnigs) were its object. carl w