Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss

Cardi B is a rapper, she’s Trini and her new song “Up” already has 43 million views on YouTube although truthfully I’m not sure what a 57-year-old white guy like myself is supposed to make of it specially the vulgarity and the use of the N-word. Or the distinction in her narrative between her suitors which I think she will honor them by inscribing their name in her very flash versus the second cohort which temporarily shall we say leave their mark.
I saw Irving ease off a Jewish successful music manager interviewed on stage about a year ago at a conference in LA with his client Nikki Minaj, also mixed race or West Indian or Trini I believe. And I am quite certain Azoff will never be a candidate for intimacy with Nicki Minaj but somehow based on his stature he does sort of tease her in a way that does not seem appropriate I think he literally called her a bitch I have a tape of this and she pretended to be offended or she pretended to not be offended.
As I ponder this and in fact I sent a letter to city Council of Palo alto regarding our history of racism here and made a very obscure reference to the phrase “nut on our butt” which I attributed to Cardi B but did not really explicate.
I also sent a note to a reporter or critic for the New York Times saying I agreed with her in part regarding Cardi B and I tried to qualify my assent using these same dangerous metaphors.
on the YouTube account with 43 million views although when I did it earlier this morning it had 42 million views and more than 100,000 comments I said something about this is like an updated version of Mary Tyler Moore who said you’re going to make it after all.

Saul Rogovin was a Jewish major leaguer and although I could name a couple thousand major leaguers I don’t think I was familiar with him. But after his career ended he attended a junior college in New York the same one that Carti attended years later and that is how they are linked .

I have a similar problem with pop smoke not sure what to make of his references to his sexual prowess . and his use of the N-word. but my thinking has evolved such that I agree that his song “we are up in all the stores” could be seen as a protest song if you reference the philosophical and perhaps French thinking about property is theft. so looting is political and not just self-serving and material.

and on 60 minutes last night they had Bill Gates who gave away 20 billion yet hordes 20 billion eating a hamburger and discussing his cognitive diffidence .

and then they have Simone biles 4 foot 11 admitting she was abused. Is it good or bad that Stanford UCLA and Michigan all have mini Simones? Or wrapping it all up how much agency does a Cardi B or a Nicki Minaj actually have and do their proclamations of self empowerment really trickle down to their listeners?

edit to ad, an hour later, and after I started to listen again to Irving Azoff and Nicki Minaj February 5, 2020 in Beverly Hills at Pollstar conference:

Nicki has increased her social media presence 20 percent from 110m followers to 130m.

I should see if any of this is in my Apple library already.

I’m watching the Warriors while I type: who knew that Brooklyn had Harden and Durant? And it was Barbara Manning, SF Seals, proving her bona fides by pointing out that Joc Pedersen was traded or not signed by the Dodgers — he’s in Chicago, a Cub.

4. Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters(Epic)

5. Lucinda Williams: Good Souls Better Angels(Highway 20)

8. Dramarama: Color TV (Pasadena)

9. Lori McKenna: The Balladeer(CN/Thirty Tigers)

11.Black Thought & Salaam Remi:Streams of Thought Vol. 2 (Human Re  Sources/Passyunk Productions ‘18)

15.Sam Hunt: Southside (MCA Nashville)

16. Bob Dylan:Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia)

19. Public Enemy: What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?(Def Jam)

20.Taylor Swift: Evermore (Republic)

27. Black Thought: Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane and Able (Republic)

28.Eminem: Music to Be Murdered By (Aftermath/Shady/Interscope/Goliath)

30. Les Amazones d’Afrique: Amazones Power(RealWorld)

31. Yonic South: Twix and Dive (La Tempesta)

32. The Chicks: Gaslighter (Columbia)

33. Black Thought: Streams of Thought Vol. 1 (Human Re Sources ‘18)

34. Elizabeth Cook: Aftermath (Agent Love/Thirty Tigers)

35. Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud (Merge)

36. X: Alphabetland (Fat Possum)

38.Haim: Women in Music Pt. III (Columbia)

39. Brandy Clark: Your Life Is a Record (Warner Bros.)

43. Phoebe Bridgers: If We Make It Through December (Dead Oceans)

44.Will Butler: Generations (Merge)

46.New Orleans Mambo: Cuba to Nola (Putumayo)

48. Hamell on Trial: The Pandemic Songs (Saustex)

52. Clem Snide: Forever Just Beyond (Ramseur/Thirty Tigers)

58. Toots and the Maytals: Got to Be Tough (Trojan America)

61. No Age: Goons Be Gone (Drag City)

62. Lil Wayne: Funeral (Young Money ’19)

65. Hayes Carll: Alone Together Sessions(Dualtone)

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Barbara Manning ‘Cantor’s Mind Was Rocking’

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MC Lars: In the Land of the Grasshopper Song

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Dayna Stephens: The Nomad

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Barbara Manning “Twilight”

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L. Marie Cook: Women on the Wall

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Dayna Stephens: The Prophet

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Barbara Manning “Dying to Live”

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Edit Add shortly there after I am multitasking between watching my fellow Dartmouth 11 is Jake Tapper on CNN and some correspondence and watching the impeachment trial and I realize I might be confusing Bruce cast door who I mentioned above and another attorney named insertVan der Veen’s —-Sean example or what was he doing touching his head as he drink water that’s not really part of my heritage anyways I meant to say that if I am confusing to Philadelphia guys who look alike in a Not necessarily bright enough to have gotten an a in professor star zingers course of Dartmouth and I admit I barely passed it if I am confusing Vanderveen in cast door it is like picking up your shoe and sniffing it to see if you stepped in dog shit or just something hard to scrape off like gum