A Legend In His Own Minefield

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The Blue-Eyed Jew Behind Gangsta Rap (Part 2)

The Blue-Eyed Jew Behind Gangsta Rap (Part 2)

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John Mendelssohn
May 29, 2015
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The Blue-Eyed Jew Behind Gangsta Rap (Part 2)
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Reviled for having as his mentor a middleaged Jew, Wright, better known as Eazy-E, demanded to know where Al Sharpton, Don King, and Lewis Farrakhan had been while Heller was making him rich. Heller made hilarious pronouncements, such as that Ice Cube, who is as much a poet as you, the reader, are a ballerina, was nothing less than the poet laureate of …

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