Adolescent barrio lotharios Memorize & recite       cinematic cadillac advice                             holdin summer night summits                             on other people's cars Got romance down to a science  like alchemy & more than happy To explain How to get to second base                             by feelin up the...Learn More

I'm here to tell the white man in the mirror the truth right to his face. I have seen the enemy and he is me. No competition, I battle myself. I'm Macon Everett Detornay, a white nigger in the universe to paraphrase both LeRoi Jones -- whose middle name I share, or did before he changed his -- and the Aryan Nation vis a vis yours truly, with whom I...Learn More

On Lit Hop (1) What I do, mostly, is write fiction. And as a hip hopper – someone who has participated in, observed, criticized, and championed the culture for twenty years -- the aesthetic techniques and political assumptions of my work derive from the foundational tenets of hip hop as I understand them. Other writers of my generation have been...Learn More

When Ambassador Dengue Fever told me that Billy wasn’t dead after all but half-alive and back in town, skulking through the Transit System’s blackened veins feral and broken and scrawling weird mambo-jahambo on the walls with chalk – chalk! as if spraypaint never existed – I pretty much just shrugged a whatever shrug and kept on selling hydroponic...Learn More