That's what it's supposed to do--speak truth to power. I'm not surprised by this...hip-hop tells the micro history, but it also tells the counter-history to the official narrative.

It gets to a much larger truth. To appreciate it, you don't have to have a vagina with an Arctic tundra inside.

The truth, finally, is who can tell it.

We know that the PC sector won't be good in the first quarter but consumer products are playing a more important role now and that will help boost demand for chips.

I entered at an interesting time, after the L.A. riots, when the field was in crisis. A lot of the movement was down with solidarity with other races, but the riots were a shock. The focus became interracial relations, and they wanted to know what I thought. It gave me a weird credibility in the field. A lot of us got published in academic journals right away.

I remember cutting out any article I could find about the guy. At the party, he gave me a piece of something he had done. I cried, dude.