hip-hop & Pynchon

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Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> I've read some rather flowery claims here about hip-hop's political and
> literary signficance, it's place in PoMo discourse, etc. Political content
> aside, and for the moment ignorning whatever they might share in terms of
> being part of a larger PoMo phenomenon, one big difference I see between
> hip-hop music as practiced by Eminem and Pynchon's work -- Eminem is
> unrelentingly commercial, while Pynchon elaborates his art with little
> apparent attention to market realities.
> 
> "David Morris" re Eminem:
> It's called entertainment.

It might be fruitful to compare Eminem with others in his
field. Pynchon with those in his. Or, perhaps, Eminem's
persona with P's or with P characters. Sphere?