THURSDAY / FRIDAY

Djing at these two things....

Wrote this for Platform recently

"90’s Hip Hop seems to be back in style. This is good if, like me, you have wasted large amounts of time and money on “rare” original press vinyl. The sad part is that the super rare Pete Rock remix you have is probably not worth shit to anyone except for the overweight balding street wear guy who works at the Notting Hill Record an Tape Exchange shop. It’s also probably not in good enough condition so he will laugh in your face like the comic book guy from the Simpsons. Fuck him. You could always become a dj instead, it’s pretty easy nowadays as you don’t have to be able to mix or actually buy any music, as stealing from the internet is completely socially acceptable. Here are some no brainers to get you started."


Pete Rock and Cl Smooth - T.R.O.Y
I reckon they are my favourite duo, sadly their solo efforts have never topped the likes of “Mecca and The Soul Brother”. Soul Survivor is shit.

Jeru The Damaja - Come Clean
Before he started wearing Camoflauge clothing and lost the plot completely. In my opinion he must have suffered from skunk psychosis

Diamond D - Best Kept Secret
“Ya see I skip to my loo like Napolean at Waterloo” What the hell does that mean?

Group Home - Livin Proof
Living in a group home is really awful, watch the Wire season 4 to find out why.

Nas - Halftime
Illmatic is probably the best Hip Hop album ever. Produced by the likes of Premier, Pete Rock and Q Tip. Wow

Raekwon - Ice Cream
“Wu-Tang in the cut, for real niggaz what? It's the after party and bitches want to fuck” Yes they do, ask your mum for some money because the ice cream man is coming to fuck you, just kidding.

The Pharcyde - Runnin
As J Dilla died recently you have probably only recently heard of him. if not get to know yo. He produced this as well as many other “bangers”.

A Tribe Called Quest - The Hop
Definitely deserves “the medals in the warfield of respect”. Do the Hop. Its Hip.

De La Soul - The Brakes
A lot of people thought De La Soul were gay- not school yard gay but proper homosexual gay. They’re idiots.

Jay Z featuring Notorious Big – Brooklyn’s finest.
Not sure about Jay Z but Biggie deserves the title.

Interview for Platform

You may be a virgin or indeed riddled with STDs but I imagine buggery is not much of a problem you encounter or have encountered at school, count yourself lucky. This wasn’t the case for your average boarding school boy in the 1950’s, not only was it pretty much socially acceptable but it also happened a lot. I seem to recall the subject being brought up by many a red corduroy wearing fifty-something quite often, so I thought I would ask my dad to shed some light on the phenomenon.

Have you ever been buggered?

No.

Thats good. I know the system of fagging (in a nutshell, older boys getting younger boys to act as servants for them - Ed) was pretty popular back then, was this effectively a green pass to do what you liked i.e. buggery and other forms of sexual assault?

I was lucky, there was very little in my house. I was dorm captain I remember being called into the housemasters office where he told me that “buggery was afoot”. Prefects had a lot of control, in some ways more than the teachers, i didn’t personally hear or see any of this buggery going on but i am a pretty heavy sleeper so even though it was allegedly going on in my dorm i didn’t hear anything.

Did you ever bugger anyone?

No.

So did people just grin and bear it?

I remember a boy was caught doing it once and all of his house mates pinned him down and drew on his penis with marker pen.

A sort of naming and shaming?

Yeah, I suppose so.

That’s almost on the same level as buggery, I suppose you have to fight fire with fire, right?

Errr, yes.

Were there any schools that were famous for it?

I think it happened everywhere, a friend of mine at a school called Stowe said that during their school play, in the first act, the curtain rose to reveal two pupils buggering each other.

I kind of wished that happened at my school.

Yeah, pretty funny!

I suppose paedophilia is a similar issue, although a bit scarier.

There was a master at my prep school who rigged up a sound system in one of the dorms and told stories over a loud speaker, afterwards he would tuck all the boys in and have a fiddle under the sheets.

That’s pretty scary.

All the boys appeared to like it and were inpatient for it to be their turn.

Yikes.

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