Topics and mentions: Hip-Hop, Rap, Elon Musk, Trump, Public Enemy, Jay-Z, Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot, Endgame), Nas, Clipse, Joe Budden, 50 Cent, G-Unit, Eric B. & Rakim - "Paid in Full", T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land), Nietzsche, Apollonian and Dionysian, Harold Bloom, Obama, Jacques Ellul (The Technological Society and "Morose Relish"), Rock music canon, Punk, Grunge, Jazz, Pusha T, Clipping - "Say the Name", Ice Cube, Donda album, Yeezus, George W. Bush, Jordans sneakers, consumerism, nostalgia, fashion industry, art industry, Fat Joe, N.O.R.E., Big Pun, pop culture, Kim Kardashian, transhumanism, World Economic Forum, Daft Punk, Can (Krautrock band), Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever, celebrity worship, magical thinking, Marilyn Monroe, Jesus Christ, Chris Chan, Yuval Noah Harari (Homo Deus), The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, Drake, mumble rap, Wu-Tang, Kool Moe Dee, Da Baby, Lil Baby, Future (musician), 2pac, Canibus, Eminem, Notorious B.I.G., Lauryn Hill, Melle Mel, KRS-ONE, Chuck D, literacy, ancient Greek epic poetry, rhapsodes, bards, Homer, Irish oral tradition, distraction, Drink Champs, social media, short attention spans, no real community anymore, self-sustaining, "Enlightened Interdependence" and William S. Burroughs, impossibility of consensus, AcclaimedMusic.net, James Brown, The Beatles, David Bowie, Elvis Presley, Aldous Huxley (Brave New World Revisited), Lauryn Hill "The Mystery of Iniquity", 1984 by George Orwell, NPC, leather pants.