#chuck nice

"In terms of the perception of time, many physicists would argue that the perception of time, the flow of time—that the past is no longer real, the present is real, and the future is not yet real—is an illusion, or a mental construct, or something imposed by the brain. And this is the debate between what we call eternalism, or the block universe, and presentism. So under eternalism, the past, present, and future are equally real. And under presentism, only the present is real. And that's how we perceive. And this is the fundamental debate about what's the nature of time. And there's this ongoing debate where the physicists say, "Hey, you neuroscientists figure this out, because obviously time is not flowing. Why does it feel like it's flowing?" And then the neuroscientists say, "Well, you physicists figure this out, because, you know, time is flowing." But the physics is really mostly the interpretation in which, because of relativity, the physics doesn't have a specific point—"you are here" doesn't say there's anything special over here. The equations of physics are time-symmetric, or time-reversible. So that leads to one interpretation: that the past, present, and future are equally real, much like space. You can be anywhere in space; you can be any moment in time.

Three Times Dope: “Funky Dividends” (1989)

A true hidden gem to my ears. I’m a pro- at golden-era hip-hop / rap and I never even knew they existed. What’s even more wild is that I’m hearing “Funky Dividends” for the first time. The overall resonance and production of this single really takes me back to that era. Think season one of In Living Color (1990-1994) and WBLS when they played cuts like these. Chuck Nice’s Midas touch mixes boom-bap, EST’s rhymes, and sampling Delegation’s “Oh, Honey” (1979) come together about materialistic women and financial problems; typical for the course all throughout that rap era. It stings every time I think about it because I wish the late-Eighties to mid-Nineties would return because this one’s so good.