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It's the new spin on "I want the President to be someone I can have a beer with." Quoting 2Pac lyrics is just comical. Even more out of touch than Ben Horowitz
by rchaud 3y ago
It's the new spin on "I want the President to be someone I can have a beer with."
Quoting 2Pac lyrics is just comical. Even more out of touch than Ben Horowitz (of Andreessen Horowitz) starting every chapter of his ultra-corporate startup book with Jay-Z lyrics.
- dboreham 3y agoBen is a long-time (life long?) rap lyric afficionado and in that respect actually quite "in-touch".
- westhanover 3y ago[flagged]
- j2kun 3y agoI think you misunderstood the meaning of "out of touch" in this context.
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- sjwhevvvvvsj 3y agoYeah, nothing says “digging in the crates” more than quoting the most mainstream possible artist in a genre. Give me DOOM lyrics or GTFO.
- thefaux 3y agoI see your DOOM and raise Viktor Vaughn :)
- skeeter2020 3y agowhat exactly is a "rap lyric aficionado"? He's about as in-touch as an Ivy-league academic studying poverty is with living in rural Appalachia.
- lawgimenez 3y agoHe’s not. What does rap lyric aficionado even means? Tupac is not even that lyrical or rhyme elite.
- etc-hosts 3y agoBen Horowitz is a pretty interesting guy https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/technology/one-family-many-revolutions-from-black-panthers-to-silicon-valley-to-trump.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/technology/one-family-man...
- specialist 3y agoTIL: Son of David Horowitz. Oh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horowitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horowitz
- qzw 3y agoBut Jay-Z is also ultra-corporate, so it fits?
- rchaud 3y agoNot the "street rap era" Jay-Z he was quoting in his book.
- specialist 3y agoHeh. I look forward to If Books Could Kill's review. Failing that, I imagine this review properly captures the gist: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RFZJKA736UBAH/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B07X36GGQ7 https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RFZJKA736UBAH/ref... I'll reserve judgement until we see how a16z's "digital asset class" thing pans out. Some might even say blockchains are eating the world.
- wolverine876 3y agoMaybe they don't care at all whether they are in or out of touch. That is a preoccupation of people at a certain age.