well said, nothing to add.

Saul Williams responds to statements made by Oprah, and questions asked, about Hip Hop, and the negative behaviours that are often associated with it.

Saul Williams has always impressed me, since I first read some of his work. I'm not a poet, although I've spent far too much time writing about possible meanings, but he gets to the heart of an issue I was dancing at the fringes of.

Art reflects society, I think in a much larger way than society reflects art. Anyways. He says it better, and deeper, and with an eloquence that can shut me up with awe. Go read it. Regardless of your opinions of the musical tradition in question.