Professor Greggy's Rapper

Jacob Laksin had a column this week in FrontPage concerning the "Hip Hop Hate" of Syracuse University "professor" Greg Thomas, who teaches rap "lyrics" as literature. Professor Greggy's lunacy however goes even beyond what Laksin documented.

When he is not being featured on "Word on Da Streets," a rap "music" news blog, the Professor is trying to build an academic career out of writing about sex in literature. He is author of such diatribes as "Bourgeois Cancer vs. Revolutionary Love: Elaine Brown's A Taste of Power Revisited."

In City Journal, Katherine Ernst, citing the New York Post, recently noted that Professor Greggy will soon be “teaching a course… analyzing Kim’s lyrics on the American judicial system” in the wake of her legal troubles.

Greg's guru is Li'l Kim, who has been involved in an attempted murder. It seems that three members of Li'l Kim's entourage were arrested and charged with attempted murder, after a shooting in New York. The trio, including Lil' Kim's cousin Lil' Cease, were arrested after 15 shots were reportedly fired, leaving the victim, Michael Goody, in the hospital with a bullet wound to the leg. Two 9mm handguns found in a car said to have been used in the shooting are reported to have been registered to Lil' Kim. Li'l Kim was then charged with one count of conspiracy, three counts of perjury, three counts of making false statements and one count of obstruction, and was partially convicted.

You can find a photo of Professor Greggy with his favorite rap perjurer at http://www-hl.syr.edu/cas-ages/TCNarchive2004.htm.