Great new analysis of “rappers and hybridity” in Hydra Magazine.
Preeminent West Coast rapper Calvin Broadus created an extraordinary piece of art in his now legendary hybrid animal/human altar ego, Snoop Doggy Dogg…
Watching nearby, a few dogs narrate the scene with streetwise poetics from Parliament Funkadelic’s “Atomic Dog.” Why must I feel like that / Why must I chase the cat / Nuttin’ but the dog in me …” What is the dog within us? Has it always been there or is a new phenomenon pertinent to our generation? Can we control it? Do we grow out of it just like we emerge from youth?
… Before the internet had enabled the social phenomenon of furries, before comic book movies of batmen and catwomen would pervade the American conscience, and still before every teenager learned how to role play on World of Warcraft, there was a 17-year-old kid from Long Beach who identified with a dog and made us see the dog within us (or perhaps the cat).
crossposted from HydraMag.
