in this journey, you're the journal, i'm the journalist

am i eternal, or an eternalist?



"more specifically rakim embodies what grant farred describes as a "vernacular intellectual" in his new book what's my name?: black vernacular intellectuals. according to farred, the "vernacular is defined by an immersion in the language of the popular, the particularities, idiosyncrasies, and distinctiveness of vernacular speech; the vernacular is marked by its ability to speak popular resistance and popular culture to power." [article]