So, I just geeked out when I found out I'll be presenting on the same panel as Oliver Wang aka O-DUB from the mighty Soul Sides blog, probably the most prominent if not best rap blogger ever. He's also apparently an academic at CSU Long Beach in Sociology and he's talking about Joe Baataan. I'm on first and my paper's on Charles Mingus. I better not suck.
I'm going to email him and see if we could go out for drinks or something. He's bound to have some sort of hip-hop related hook-up in NYC that I should attach myself to.
We're on at 3:30 on Saturday April 7th somewhere in the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York (opposite Grand Central Station).