That birthday party that got shot-up caused me to lose heart. But it should not have. Perhaps, like myself, those kids are overwhelmed by the sheer amount of what they don’t understand in this crazy world. If could be that without parents to love them and community to hold them accountable they are lashing out in the only way they know how. If, as an expert, I believe that my perspective is right, then those dumb kids are backwards and lost and in need of saving. But, if as their brother, I embrace them and try to look past their materialism and violence and misogyny and self-hatred to see what they are trying (despite themselves) to tell us, then we all just might have a chance.

Get Your Mind Right:  Hip Hop is more than rims and beef and ass and bling. It is collectively trying to tell us something. Shout out to Dr. Dyson for listening.

_{1Einstein, A. (1923). Fundamental ideas and problems of the theory of relativity. Lecture delivered to the Nordic Assembly of Naturalists at Gothenburg July 11, 1923}