NY Times article on UK writer Nik Cohn and his involvement with New Orleans rap pre- and post-Katrina

nik cohn's written like that for like ever tho! maybe its just the clash of throwback hardboiled minimalism from another era that makes it feel all funny to ppl. i mean, throw in some southern diction and modern slang and you've got a better wally lamb, if you know what i'm saying.

the tricky thing is to nurture a place where creativity can be nurtured, without it becoming too much about the *place.* Some people have to stay there, to keep it going, but there should be fresh arrivals and departures too. Not just New Orleans--I've heard musos refer to Austin as "the Velvet Coffin." Lots of college towns like that too.Of course, there can be different scenes in the same towns.

"Not til they put up the money to build the levee up to withstand Force 5, and not 'til the results are convincingly inspected: nobody go back 'til then, okay?"

Too late.

so has anyone read triksta yet?

I'm halfway through and undecided. the book's pitched uneasily between self-deprecation and self-aggrandisement and as much about his history of self-mythologising as it is on bounce/NO rap, but his love of the music does pour thru. purple prose a bit hard to take at times tho...

bounce.

hmmm I'm still on the fence about reading this. Cohn's early stuff is classic but you're right about "purple prose" the old gaga New Journalism approach often seems self-indulgent in the 21st century.

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