TELLING YOU WHEN TO GO

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Because of Jay Dee's untimely death, for March, my monthly column in the Oakland Tribune became biweekly instead. Here's my latest piece, a consideration on the Bay Area's burgeoning hyphy movement and its chances for national success. The short story is this: there hasn't been a more exciting time for local hip-hop around the Bay...but that doesn't mean that everyone else around the country is going to hop aboard with it. To put it succinctly, it's a question if the Yay's scene is just too weird for other cats to roll with - the yellow bus isn't for everybody.

(That said, two words: "Four Freaks." Get hep to it.)

--O.W.