On and On and On And On
Years ago, spurred on by the creation of the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive, I found myself trying to figure out how the golden age of hip-hop aging would play out at that silly theoretical level that seems to fill our days and find almost no purchase in life itself. I sat on the unfurling of a banner representing Phife Dawg on SNL. I thought about Black Thought only seeming to grow in strength and power as he aged. (Glorious Game? Cheat Codes? Streams of Thought Vol. 3? Are you kidding me?)
Enter the Souls of Mischief crew into this conversation, all but blowing up the frame altogether (“I’m monumental/Your mental mono”), releasing a one-take cypher two months prior of their classic, “93 ‘til Infinity.” You can watch their performance above and read the lyrics here.