MF GALAXY

From my article in this week's Vue Weekly, and from tonight's edition of THE TERRORDOME , the sad and glorious story of how local hip hop sensation Politic Live got jerked all along the way to making a phenomenal album : "So many of history’s greatest artists reached the heights of fame because some benefactor’s bucks put them there. "But if you fire up the ol’ the Alternate History Scanner and search under keywords 'Accident + Error + Scam,' you can scroll for years through the millions of would’ve-been-titans who, say, dropped dead halfway through writing the manuscript that would’ve been the world’s finest novel, or the composers whose memories and symphonies were erased by the unexpected meeting of skulls and speeding doors, or the musicians whose potential greatness was terminated by the intersection of their talent and a producer’s charlatanism. "Pore over that list long enough and you might find the name of E-Town’s finest hip hop band, Politi...