Saturday 2 May 2015

Ras Kass on Growing Up with the Encyclopedia

About nine minutes and 45 seconds into the tape, he's asked what kind of encyclopedia he grew up with.

"Oh, so you was a Britannica [老黑],* I was a World Book [老黑]."

* [老黑 was the polite translation of "the n-word" used in the Chinese subtitles to The Wire on Cambodian television.  If I hadn't been living in Cambodia at that time, I would've never seen an episode of The Wire at all.]

Link to the interview: https://soundcloud.com/thecombatjackshow/the-ras-kass-episode