OG Don Vito, Jimmy Green, and Other Royalty of the Hip-Hop Renaissance
So, damn it, man. First of all, to put paid to my last column of some two years ago or more, Amazon finally caved and published Boogaloo . I have two readers, one of which I’m married to, so it’s sort of a pyrrhic victory. Anyway… I despise every libertarian and ancap that has never read it, which is all of them. The few of you who know me and actually read my stuff know I go back pretty far in the indie hip-hop underground (and the metal/hardcore one…). My involvement with hip-hop dates to literal decades before I had my little indie run around 2006-2008. At some point, I was done. I hit my first high mark with the amazing DJ Manticore . He can be blamed for anything I’ve done since 2000 , honestly. Roman will always be my dog. Later on, I was blessed to work with Kid Charlamaign, who did about six tracks for me with all live instruments. Yet another dream come true. I’m not even sure what crazy period I went through to lose touch with him, honestly. I’ve had a fe
