Comments on: Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, Rick Rubin, and the first gold record

By: devophill

devophill — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:18:00 +0000

> petulant rich kid with an ugly unibrow… who didn’t know shit about hip hop but had to be handed tapes by some no-named white dude

Ed’s been pretty consistently en pointe with the details in this strip, I don’t think he’d start making shit up out of whole cloth at this point. If he drew ol’ Beardy McSunglasses like that, there was a reason for it.

By: Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston

Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:28:00 +0000

What I am and am not in real life isn’t really important, except to trivial people.

By: Grand

Grand — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:46:00 +0000

I don’t know who Ed Piskor is, but I can tell you there is a certain level of truth to what he writes.

By: bobkat

bobkat — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:15:00 +0000

Despite one’s opinion of how various people are portrayed, I think one must admit that this comic, when complete, is going to be a significant historic document. This era in music history is largely unknown and under-reported, and I think depicting it in an exaggerated and humorous fashion, with obsession on real historic minutia, is not only appropriate, but awesome. Ed, thanks for taking this project on! I love it. I also really enjoy listening to the tracks mentioned in the comic.

It’s probably impossible, but if this would ultimately get released in book form with a mix tape of all the songs, it would be mind-blowing!

By: Steve White

Steve White — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:14:00 +0000

Ed – I love it when a new one of these shows up on BoingBoing!

By: origilla

origilla — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:19:00 +0000

You’re alarmed by some silly shit. I bet you’re a blast to hang out with.

By: MattAtDoyle

MattAtDoyle — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:21:00 +0000

Bwa haha from uni-brow rich punk to garden gnome. Rickie Rubin…

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:37:00 +0000

I hear he was in a band called The Pricks, so…

By: Ed Piskor

Ed Piskor — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:38:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZDUEilS5M4

By: Ed Piskor

Ed Piskor — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:37:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHBu5_qLIas

By: Ed Piskor

Ed Piskor — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:37:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk_DBrjtH0s

By: noah django

noah django — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:28:00 +0000

another of those five singles Treacherous Three cut for Enjoy, liberated from a ten-cent bin at Ear Wax, ATL.

By: Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston

Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:12:00 +0000

It’s not about showing people warts and all, which is always fine, it’s about portraying people in ways that I’m not sure are true. Especially portraying Rubin as a petulant rich kid with an ugly unibrow and a vaguely unsettling Jewish caricature for a father. Someone who didn’t know shit about hip hop but had to be handed tapes by some no-named white dude. That’s pretty far from the Rubin I read about. It’s pretty heavy-handed. Simmons is just portrayed as a high-liver with a lisp.

By: Scooter Jackson

Scooter Jackson — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:49:00 +0000

He hasn’t really been “kind” to ANYONE for that matter, and that makes it so much better. It also doesn’t take away any respect I have for any of the artists portrayed. Life ain’t just peaches and cream.
Keep em comin Ed! These are better than any weekly tv show.

By: Daniel Latta

Daniel Latta — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:40:00 +0000

Jeremy — well, he hasn’t exactly been kind to Russell Simmons, either.

By: Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston

Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:16:00 +0000

I certainly hope there’s some sort of verifiable way to show that Rick Rubin actually was a spoiled dick? Because it seems to take a lot of liberties in portraying him poorly, and makes the author seem catty.

By: pupdog

pupdog — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:03:00 +0000

Loving all of this – and the bottles of TJ Swann – awesome!