Taking No Shortz: 5 Rap Songs That Properly ..
Y'all must have gotten really bored tweeting about Downton Abbey or something yesterday, because there was a completely moronic kerfuffle about The New York Times crossword and rap lyrics, naturally taking the internet pedantry department by storm. It seems Will $hortz, crossword editor for the old gray lady, had put as a 28 down, "Wack, in hip-hop," with "illin[']" as the hypthetically correct (read: not at all correct) answer. Gawker best summed up the SMH-as-I-type-this idiocy that came next. Freelance writer and obviously incredibly bored person Julieanne Smolinski corrected Shortz Dog, insisting that "wack" and "illin[']" were not, in ...
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14 January 2012