DrewBreez

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la weekly's ben westhoff wrote an investigative article about the rapper riff raff, in an attempt to lift the veil on his purposely obscured "actual identity." it seems obvious that his actual identity is that of a coon, a racial caricature, a thin mockery of the genre in which he plays.

all sales final. that's that sh*t i don't like.   in all seriousness though, i'm here to express my deep disappointment and utter shock at the incidents that have taken place these past few months. one of hip-hop's esteemed live performance artists, chief keef, has repeatedly failed to live up to his top billing at shows across the country. if it were any other average musician, i'd be perhaps less dismayed by the overt delinquency and absenteeism. but frankly where it concerns chief keef, i've come to expect a helluva lot more.