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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Books / Music Let's All Play "Weed Smoke or Ectoplasm?" With Biz Markie on the Cover of Bookforum

Posted by Mark Asch on Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:25 PM

The September-October Music Issue of the always terrific lit-culture broadsheet promotes several essays related to music, including a review of The Anthology of Rap, highlighted by a cover image from Mike Schreiber's forthcoming photo book True Hip Hop. In this photo, the mighty Biz Markie boldly flaunts the law, letting out a huge puff of marijuana smoke.

Or is the "Just a Friend" crooner in fact a medium, captured in the midst of a trance state, excreting the gauzy physical evidence of his possession by representatives of the spirit world?

You decide.

Tags: Bookforum, Mike Schreiber, Hip Hop Photography, Biz Markie, Weed Smoke, Ectoplasm, Actually Wait Is That Cotton Candy?

        
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Books / Music Let's All Play "Weed Smoke or Ectoplasm?" With Biz Markie on the Cover of Bookforum

Posted by Mark Asch on Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:25 PM

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