This post has been a long time coming. In fact, I feel like this will be my worst post ever, because my subject is a king of the pen and I only want to impress him with my feature on his work. The person I am speaking of is none other than Ben Ness aka Doc Waffles. Before I get wordy, go ahead and cut on “Everybody Twist” (from his unfinished second album The Bon Vivant), which is below this paragraph. This will set the mood and help uncover the genius of the hip hop literary agent, Doc Waffles.
Okay, let me get to it.
When I think of hip hop as a medium, I contemplate often of the possibilities of how it will evolve. For me, there are only two real ways that the music can expand – sonically and lyrically. I know, d’uh. With the conversation addressing hip hop and its curious journey always hovering around the question of “what’s next,” it bodes peculiar that there is not more energy put into the growth of the music itself than the hoopla that surrounds it. How about we close this can of worms though, mmkay?
Great.
In the two areas mentioned, the only one I can dissect scholarly is the lyrical arena. As someone who writes the occasional rhyme when the spirit moves me, I appreciate the art of rapping at a very deep level. It gives me great pleasure to be able to share my appreciation of the work of Doc Waffles, because there is no one like him. No one. You may not want to believe that, but you would be wrong. I mean seriously, have you checked out Golf View Drive yet?
