5.6.07

In stitches... Eight years on, this couplet remains the funniest and wittiest that I have heard. & to think, it appeared on record BEFORE Columbine, BEFORE anybody even knew who he was to blame him, BEFORE the shooters (ICP fans, so, really, they would have loathed Mr Mathers) were making YouTube-ready (were YouTube to have existed) apologies (classic sense) for their violence.

To wit: I try to keep it positive, play it cool/ Shoot up the playground, & tell the kids to stay in school.

Honestly, nothing I have heard, even from those as adept at musical wordplay as Morrissey or Beck (mostly, on Midnite Vultures) or Diamond Dave or Kool Keith, has topped this.

(In point of fact, of course, several other lines on the same album as the above might be better, but given the cultural context -- lack thereof, really, since it hadn't happened by the time the song was recorded -- it is my favourite.)