Boss Squad

This is money graffiti. Something about "Boss Squad," "God is good," and "extream." I came across this 5-spot locally. I think I got it at the local co-op, after I bought some espresso beans there. Anyway, five minutes ago, I went to the "extream2" myspace page and discovered the secrets of the Boss Squad. Now you can too: (Click here.)

Basically the Boss Squad is a group of homegrown emcees from the A-T-L, of all places. I don't know how many fivers they desecrated in their PR campaign, but one of 'em was successful, at least. I mean, it traveled from the Peach State all the way up to the Land O' Corn. I think that's pretty righteous.

Unfortunately, the music of the Boss Squad is not so righteous. At least, not to these ears. But, then again, it's nice to get lured haphazardly and whimsically to an A-T-L gangsta rapper's myspace page. I like that. There's a photo of one of the members of the Squad in front of a BP station. And I'm pretty sure I know the exact BP. It's in College Park. (Represent.) Anyway...

If you were taking my Rhetoric class at U of Iowa, this is the course description of the class you'd be signed up for:

"All too often, we might find ourselves sleepwalking through life without questioning our own motives, or the motives of those who surround us. Sensing this keenly, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that 'the world is a will to power, and nothing besides.' As soon as he uttered these words, he left us – all of us – with the mixed blessing of having to locate and define our place in a world where power is constantly being negotiated, bought, sold, stolen, otherwise trafficked, and even re-defined.

In this class, we will embark upon a protracted exploration of Nietzsche’s premise, examining the distribution of power and control embedded in the rhetorical messages that we send and receive every day. Together, we will (1) rigorously analyze these messages, (2) engage, explore and mine them for their many levels of significance, and (3) learn to skillfully present our perspectives within a public forum. Also, in this course we will hone our analytical, written, and spoken prowess, thereby learning to more keenly wield argument in its many guises. Because we will likely find negotiations regarding the distribution (and, hopefully, the redistribution) of power at nearly every turn, we will also examine our personal and social relationship(s) to power and what it means to be responsibly power-ful in these modern times."

But basically what I'm gonna have these guys do is explore and explain things like how a five dollar bill, graffitied, can migrate from the ATL to Iowa and what it mean to be a member of the Boss Squad. Seriously.