Fall of 1985, my freshman year at Red Bank Regional high school, there was a kid whose locker was down the hall from mine who came to school dressed in ill-fitting clothes that had holes in them. His name was Damion. I didn't know him, but I sat behind his friend John in history class. Damion was very short and very skinny and his hair was often messed up. Other kids teased him. One day news went around the school that he had squared off to fight another kid, this guy Jeff, who was much bigger than him, and that Damion had pulled out a knife and made Jeff [...]

Earlier this year, stand-out coke-rappers the Clipse had their bona fides verified when manager Anthony Gonzales pleaded guilty to running a multimillion dollar drug ring. With the video to the new single "Doorman," from the forthcoming album Til The Casket Drops, the Virginia duo celebrate their incarcerated "comrades" very explicitly. The game is to be sold, not told. At least, not until after everyone who could go to jail is already in jail, at which point it should be told so it can be sold some more. Not knocking it. That's just good business, I suppose. Good song, too.