The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:10:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Revealed: "Sex Packets" Based On Junk Science http://www.theawl.com/2010/12/revealed-sex-packets-based-on-junk-science http://www.theawl.com/2010/12/revealed-sex-packets-based-on-junk-science#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:10:41 +0000 Dave Bry http://www.theawl.com/2010/12/revealed-sex-packets-based-on-junk-science "Meanwhile, in his briefcase he has an actual plan to create sex packets. The nigga was nuts [laughs]. Smooth really believed he was going to get a grant from the United States government to develop this technology to help astronauts have sex when they traveled. I thought it was a brilliant idea, but I didn’t think technology reached a point to where we could induce a dream and allow someone to see who they wanted and have sex with them. Acid and ecstasy were close, but it wasn’t quite that. As we were putting together the concept of the album I told him, ‘You know what? Sex packets would make a cold concept for a song. Let me try to flip it.’ ... we started going over the Sex Packet concept to make sure people couldn’t poke holes in it. We started studying the properties of ecstasy and LSD and what all the jargon was. We created a story where there was a professor at Stanford University who designed sex packets for astronaut travel so they could be sexually satisfied. The name of it was GSRA which stood for Genetic Suppression Release Antidote. We created this story that a powerful drug leaked into the streets of San Francisco and it was called sex packets on the street. Then on top of that, we went to Kinko’s and made a serious looking pamphlet on how to use sex packets because it was dangerous and fucking people up [laughs]. We made thousands of those pamphlets and left them on the back of buses and at hospitals. After all that, it was Tommy Boy’s idea to name the entire album after the ‘Sex Packets’ song."
—Digital Underground mastermind Shock G tells Vibe the disappointing truth: There was never actually any such thing as "Sex Packets."

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]]> "Meanwhile, in his briefcase he has an actual plan to create sex packets. The nigga was nuts [laughs]. Smooth really believed he was going to get a grant from the United States government to develop this technology to help astronauts have sex when they traveled. I thought it was a brilliant idea, but I didn’t think technology reached a point to where we could induce a dream and allow someone to see who they wanted and have sex with them. Acid and ecstasy were close, but it wasn’t quite that. As we were putting together the concept of the album I told him, ‘You know what? Sex packets would make a cold concept for a song. Let me try to flip it.’ ... we started going over the Sex Packet concept to make sure people couldn’t poke holes in it. We started studying the properties of ecstasy and LSD and what all the jargon was. We created a story where there was a professor at Stanford University who designed sex packets for astronaut travel so they could be sexually satisfied. The name of it was GSRA which stood for Genetic Suppression Release Antidote. We created this story that a powerful drug leaked into the streets of San Francisco and it was called sex packets on the street. Then on top of that, we went to Kinko’s and made a serious looking pamphlet on how to use sex packets because it was dangerous and fucking people up [laughs]. We made thousands of those pamphlets and left them on the back of buses and at hospitals. After all that, it was Tommy Boy’s idea to name the entire album after the ‘Sex Packets’ song."
—Digital Underground mastermind Shock G tells Vibe the disappointing truth: There was never actually any such thing as "Sex Packets."

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/12/revealed-sex-packets-based-on-junk-science/feed 8 And Pour One Out For 'Vibe' http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/and-pour-one-out-for-vibe http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/and-pour-one-out-for-vibe#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:32:04 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/and-pour-one-out-for-vibe Also Vibe just died. Here we have another example of how furloughing workers and making less of a publication is usually not an effective technique to save a magazine or newspaper.

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]]> Also Vibe just died. Here we have another example of how furloughing workers and making less of a publication is usually not an effective technique to save a magazine or newspaper.

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