What is the worst thing you can say to a raging narcissist with a saviour complex? And I don’t mean “worst” as in “what will hurt their feefees the most?”; I mean what would make this already-precarious situation even worse?
You tell him that he might actually be onto something.
In the greater mythology of hip-hop, there are few events
that serve as true turning points for the culture as much as the untimely death
of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur. Partly because of how publicised their
living beef was, partly because their deaths made for an argument to turn
mainstream hip-hop down a more peaceful direction (Will Smith breaking out on
his solo career in the wake of that is no coincidence), and partly because it
embodies the inner workings of myth in that we’re still not entirely sure what
really happened. They were both gunned down within a short amount of time of
each other, and it remains one of the greater unsolved mysteries of the
culture, up there with the anxious waiting for Detox to drop before Dr. Dre
stopped edging his audience and admitted it wouldn't happen.
