
Frank Yang I think I'm done qualifying any opinions I might voice on the subject of hip-hop. Which doesn't happen often, no, but when it does, I've always felt the need to point out that I don't have the experience with the genre to form what I'd consider a properly contextualized viewpoint and so end up with a quarter-assed collection of observations rather than my usual half-assed. This insecurity manifested itself most acutely a couple years ago when I was on the grand jury for the 2008 Polaris Prize and was unsure about [...]