The Devil is in the Details

Jude Jones
2 min readMar 30, 2021

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There was no outrage when Satan dated 2020. You knew it was satire. You knew It was a joke. Your laugh was not in appreciation of Satan, but an ironic acknowledgement of the joke.

You’re not stupid. You get it.

Nas was going to name that album “Nigger.” There was precedent in Dick Gregory and Randall Kennedy. But rappers don’t get artistic benefits of the doubt. The title was regarded as…

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Jude Jones

Go ask my pre-school, even talk to my old principal / He’d tell you how you I used to pack a number two pencil