The Low End Theory for this and this alone: how unwilling you were to provoke in the name of something that might make a listener laugh for a while, and damn, did we need to laugh, because the police beat a man right there in the street and we all watched it on television, Phife. They didn’t serve the time for it, either. So we all needed something foolish—a winding story about lost loves or a punch line about some wack shit. It’s all low, all the time. Even the laughter is low. Even the way one exhales after a good laugh rumbles the walls of a room can sound like bass flooding out of the
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