“These transcontinental urban griots echo the despair, pain, and anger of the South Bronx and Harlem (the world's two major rap centers), which a lot of the cool-jerk white liberals and b.s. black bourgeoisie don't want to hear.”
Originally published January 21, 1981
“Detroit is a city whose horror reaches cinematic proportions, like 'The Living Dead Wear Kangols and Filas.' However you like your chiller theater, Detroit is the worst because it’s real.”
Originally published December 1, 1987
“To the ruling class, Larry Davis is society's nightmare, a horror-film monster who keeps coming back every time you think you’ve put him away for good. But to the powerless, Davis is a resistance fighter ... ”
Originally published November 28, 1988
Harlem Gangsters Raise a Genius
Originally published September 1, 1988
“In the ’80s, it was ‘Morning in America’ and we woke up to find that our nightmares were real: it became the Decade of the Quick and the Dead.”
Originally published January 2, 1990