Democracy and Hip-Hop Compares NOLA and KC

Catching up on the local blogosquare, I came across this post on Democracy and Hip-Hop. It mostly concerns the New Orleans Bounce music documentary Ya Heard Me (which I’m now dying to see), but in the post, author Krisna Best characterizes KC’s culture as compared with New Orleans’ in this brisk, proud and knowing sweep:

I’ll be right up front, I’m from Kansas City, y’all. Where I’m from we listen to Tech N9ne and Young Rich, Approach, Soul Providers, Vell Bakardy, Mac Lethal, and Joc Max, we go to G’s Jamaican Cuisine for local hood hip-hop, the Peanut for backpacker rap, while the grown and sexy crowd goes to Bodyworks and the Epicurean. We don’t eat crawfish and red beans and rice, but we will throw down on some barbeque and hotwings, brisket, pulled pork, and burnt ends. Our teams are the Chiefs and Royals. Our Mardi Gras is St. Patrick’s Day. Yeah, NOLA’s got the Irish Channel and Veterans street parades, but we got Snake Saturday, Brookside, and Downtown parades. We just ain’t quite the glorified small town that NOLA is (and actually we’re a bit larger both land and population).

Krisna continues…