the fountain of youth

this topic arrouse the other night while hanging out with cassy and andrew after old pizza..we were done watching Fargo and were skipping through channels when we came across the bernie mac show. it got us thinking, how old was bernie mac when he died, we discovered he was in his 50's, and still using the same methods and cliches of humor popular among rappers...so it got me thinking again..how old are some of your favorite rappers, and does their age match their musical content??

my friend jason is in his late 30's, but he skates like he's in his twenties. i knew of jason years before i ever met him becuase of his old band, Grandaddy, and would have never guessed he was of that age. not that your late 30's is old by anymeans, but near middle age does not really reflect the age my friends and i when we were pumped on grandaddy. we were about 18-20ish.

so, rappers seem to be stuck in a state of being perpetually care-free 22 year olds. so i guess the we need to consider the maturity level of the musical content versus actually physical age and the supposed maturity level one "should" be at that age and figure out who is doing the best job at defying nature.

DR. Dre-age, 44- he has the personal of a mid-twenties thug, running the streets with viscous cold blooded authority, a man who has seen the worst and is a vet before his prime, but, in fact, he is middle aged thug, telling kids whats up, and how they dont even know.

Snoop Dogg- age,37.-came on as a young buck but now has matured with swagger and pimp-status beyond compare, he's not hiding from his age, but rather, showing he can still hang with the young dudes, and probably bag more babes.

Eminem-age, 36.- Eminem is my pick for the winner of this little fountain of youth contest between gangster rap heavyweights. though still the youngest of the three, the gap between the maturity of his public image and societies expectations of a man in their mid-30s is astounding. think about it, how many 36 year old men do you know run around acting like a methed-out bratty eighth grader? probably none.

i cant even believe that Jason Lee, one the "old-man" legends of skateboarding, and a hero to many, is only two years eminems senior, and when we compare legacies the differences is night and day.. age and maturity is a tricky mistress.

so, i guess what im trying to say is stay young at heart, but also act your age, its a balance i supose. but if you want to stay young forever, or at least convince yourself that you are staying young while the rest of the world says, "who the fuck is he trying to kid?", become a white-trash rap star.

later
-will