Great Moments in Bad Writing

The following excerpt is the first two sentences of Andria Lisle’s review of Mos Def’s latest in the December/January issue of Paste magazine.

“Now, more than ever, hip-hop seems to be on a divergent path: Half its practitioners are thugging and mugging, while others—led by The Roots and Outkast—opt for the high road by adding actual instrumentation to the mix. Mos Def, who initially made his mark as an actor, has always moved in the latter direction, shunning the low-life approach for an intellectual and socially conscious spew worthy of W.E.B. DuBois.”

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