Im back after what felt like forever. In the two weeks since my last post, President Ford died, Saddam's execution has been replayed repeatedly on youtube, Busta was arrested and the world welcomed in the year 2007. But of all the things that have happened in the past weeks, Pharoahe Monch's new video "When the Gun Draws" is easily the most the interesting to me. No disrespect to the "Godfather", but it's been damn near a decade since Monch dropped the critically acclaimed "Internal Affairs". "Truth" and "Queens" still gets burn in my ipod from time to time. If "Push" and "When the Gun Draws" are any indication of what Desire will be then 2007 should be a good year for Monch. "When the Gun Draws" follows the "life" of a stray bullet in a fashion similar to Nas' "I Gave you Power". In a time where most rappers can't go eight bars without mentioning their glock, heckler & koch, etc, it's really refreshing to hear someone speak responsibly about the importance of gun control and the sad reality of the lack there of.
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