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We hear the Celtics have lined up Gucci Mane to share with the world his take on “The Fool on the Hill.” Yeah, yeah, yeah!

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ANDRE 3000 AND UGK WILL SAVE THE INTERNETZ

With the coming of Web 3.1 comes the risk of the Internetz ironically meta-enabling itself out of existence. “Rex” over at fimoculous.com says “It’s everything that’s right and wrong about the internet right now.”

Thankfully, @Awl has taken a definite stand against the heinous practice (even a sentence like that reads sarcastically here). We should be able to write/blog/tumbl with sincerity without any quotes, whether they be implied, literal, assumed or plain necessary.

So to do our part here at The ## we thought we’d focus on that aspect of our society which all morals rest: hip hop. Despite the apparent wide-spread of polyamory, Andre 3000 and UGK stand for real American monogamy in the storm of modern, instant, narcissistic technology (via Web 3.0).

So, I typed a text to a girl I used to see
Saying that I chose this cutie pie with whom I want to be
And, I apologize if this message gets you down
then I CC’d every girl that I see see’d around town.

Int’l Player’s Anthem is essentially a modern-day motown song in its moral center— a fairy tale love story, a voluntary withdrawal from the fast-paced, exotic lives of hip hop stars and thus the businessmen/entrepreneurs that attempt to model their lives after them. And yet by referring to “a text” and CC (an interesting phrase that has been with us since typewriters made carbon copies), it’s strikingly modern.

Of course there’s a history of art that combines romance and communication technology, from James’ In the Cage to the Marvelettes. Not sure how long it will take the @reply to hit the Top 40.

Yes “IPA” is two blog centuries old, but I’ll coast this under the whole “Decade in Review” buzz to excuse any perceived irrelevance.