The day has come. For the first time since 1990, not a single rap song was in the Top 40 of Billboard’s Hot 100 , snapping a streak of over 35 years (1,800+ weeks). I can’t say I’m THAT surprised though, as the writing has been on the wall for a while now and there really hasn’t been a new wave of "next generation" artists in the last few years to take up the mantle. Every 5 years or so, going back to the 90’s, new classes of artists and producers would arrive on the scene wi

I’ve always found sports fascinating. On one side of the coin they’re just part of the larger circus of distraction and amusement; pacifying and utterly meaningless. Even the “legends” of today will be mere footnotes in the annals of history a thousand years from now, if even cited at all. On top of that, there are significant epochal and consequential issues of existential importance that are far more worthy of our attention. From nuclear war and the ethical development of A

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There’s a debt bomb ticking unyieldingly in the commercial real estate sector. All the economists and analysts know it, investors know...