ebonics/European rappers/ other stuff

[Peter Kilander]

DANIEL DAVIES WROTE:
>It was wrote:
>
><< I think I'd like to hear Italy's answer to the Beastie Boys,
>the Sugar Hill Gang, Run DMC, or Laurie Anderson.>>
>
>Whhooo, man, I promise you you wouldn't.  He's called "Jovanotti" and is
>the lamest-assed white rapper ever to sport one of those goatee beards.
>He's about 40, too, and some of us remember him back in the Old Skool days
>with a backwards baseball cap -- he was pretty old then.  Big mate of
>Pavarotti, too (I kid you not)

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/3085/jovanotti.html

There is (was?) a great rap group from the UK called Marxman who put out a
wonderful album in '94 titled 33 Revolutions Per Minute. Sinnead O'Connor's
on it and they have some brilliant lyrics like "tinker, tinker, tinker, Mr.
Tinkerman/ tinkering with symptoms, can't you understand?" Haven't heard
from them lately, though.