MNZ: Mass Appeal #51

I don't know if I'm getting more out of touch with things, or certain magazines I used to really love have fallen the fuck off, but I didn't get a lot out of this issue of Mass Appeal. This used to be one of my top 3 must have mags, but damn man. It did hip me to those faggot Scandinavian kids doing the Wu-Tang covers before the internet went nuts over that, so I guess it was worthwhile. And it taught me about Yahoozie boys in Nigeria, which I still need to try and download those songs. My shitty rap groups myspace page, I got sick of real friends being there and caring about top 8 or whatever the fuck, so I used my internet welfare (aka dial-up) to friend up a bunch of west African rap groups and make them my top 8 friends. Back to the motherland and shit, by way of NYC.
Oh yeah, the big piece of the San Francisco area transit bus graffiti bombers was cool, but I think I watched some shit ass documentary off of Netflix like a year ago about the same thing. So it wasn't like some groundbreaking shit to read about. But probably who suffered the most was The Knux. Stupid Shade 45 on the satellite about the time I purchased this had already been bugging the fuck out of me by playing the remix for "Cappucino" like every time I happened to be in the truck tuned into Shade 45. And then there was a feature in this Mass Appeal on The Knux, and they came off like a couple of chump ass fuckers. And not because they seemed nerdy, because I can get down with someone authentically being a nerd and still being who they are in a loud and proud manner. But these dudes came across like they were trying to have a nerd image, to be that backpacker crossover super act or some shit, like syphoning off the Kidz in the Hall/Cool Kids/Lupe Fiasco and I guess even stupid closet homosexual Kanye West's newfound "I'm not ignorant because I don't rhyme about killing people, even though I ain't really that smart unless your vocab consists mostly of text messaging shorthand" pseudo-Native Tongues fashion district bisexual rap genre. So I came out of thinking, "Man, these guys are stupid fucks. And probably not even for-real gay." I have little respect for people who seem gay but aren't gay, because I imagine if you are truly gay, sucking dicks can be a very satisfying thing. I mean, the penis is a strong appendage visually, and stuffing it into your mouth is probably aesthetically empowering, if you were apt to be that way. But to come across like a fag and not really be a fag, I don't know, it seems a shame to me.