Is this a first for a political scientist?
Being dissed in public by a prominent rapper:
In a recent Foreign Policy article, George Washington University Professor Marc Lynch, likened the feud to the battle of global hegemony — with Jay Z in the role of the United States, and The Game as the “erratic wildcard”: Iran and North Korea. The Game asks for an explanation of why that’s not a favourable comparison, before likening Lynch to Greenland — isolated from the top writers in the world — and Jay Z to Iceland “coz he’s gone cold.”
And can Marc cite this in his end-of-year report as evidence of his influence on public debate?
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His posts were certainly entertaining. And I guess it is sort of gratifying that The Game actually acknowledged his comparison and then went on to diss him back. Guess this is the kind of stuff you get to do when you have tenure?
Posted by: nickg | August 8, 2009 08:05 AM
My research was mocked in the House of Commons once. Although, I have to admit, I didn’t talk about this much until after I had tenure.
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August 8, 2009 10:38 PM
That’s pretty good - but if Marc manages to get dissed or otherwise referenced in an actual track by one of the feuding rappers, I think that he will have established an unassailable lead in the popular culture sweepstakes.
Posted by: Henry | August 9, 2009 05:44 AM
I don’t know which makes me happier: a political scientist influencing culture, or me being only familiar with the rappers’ names and not getting the pop-culture side of the analogy.
Posted by: Matt Jarvis | August 10, 2009 04:20 PM