Today’s post, though, brought “American Gangster”, the new album from Jay-Z, a rapper who I’ve been fairly obsessed with in the past. It’d be overstating things a bit to make out that ...

"I can remember getting on a plane and an older white woman saying, 'Oh, your son[-in-law] is a gangster ... African American men and boys with the same passion that she defended JAY-Z, the ...