"I'm from the Lou and what I do is a Lou thang"
— Murphy Lee on "Midwest Swing"
Our very own A-Do lobbies for embracing our city's hip-hop nickname in a front-page story in today's Post-Dispatch by Todd C. Frankel.
What cracks me up is the vehemence of the opposition, the self-appointed defenders of all that is Right and Proper. I'm guessing there's a high degree of overlap between people who hate the term "the Lou" and people who call Town Talk.
In the poll on STLtoday.com, 50% of the 2,913 respondents hate "the Lou," 26% like it and 24% don't care.
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what 'it' was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's 'it' seems weird and scary to me."
— Grandpa Simpson
Posted under The Media by Brian Marston on Fri., Apr 1, 2005 at 4:09 PM
I thought it amusing that the P-D could only trace the term "The Lou" back to 1995, while I and other of my friends in the St. Louis hip-hop scene were using it as early as 1992. I suspect it goes back further, if you were to poll the black community.
Why it's a big enough issue to be on the front page of the P-D, over Matt Blunt's Medicaid cuts, is beyond me.
[Posted by kid subliminal on Fri., Apr 1, 2005 at 10:14 PM]I'm neither right nor proper, and I think "The Lou" is a pretty stupid nickname.
But if other people like the term, that's their business.
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