The King of Champagne Music was born to German parents, and didn’t speak English until he was 21 years old.
The Poet Laureate of Skid Row was born in Germany in 1920, but moved to America three years later. Who is he?
This famous entertainer, seen above, was named the 5th Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute and had a German mother.
This famous director was born with the name Allen Stewart Konigsberg, and his grandparents moved to New York from Germany.
This German American director’s best known films were Metropolis, M, and the Big Heat.
Gonna post pics of last weeks winners along with questions about famous German Americans. Why? Because today is German American Day!
I have long loathed gangster rap for basically ruining what was art and replacing it with, as Little Brother put it, a Minstrel Show. But I have to give Ice Cube credit. He is one of the few gangster rappers out there with a fairly high degree of intelligence, and his latest song in which he talks about what an ultraviolent society we live in and how that isn’t gangster raps fault is certainly thought-provoking, whether or not you agree with the message. That, to me, is art and precisely what rap should be. But 9 times out of 10 it’s just some dope talking about many people he’s shot, a tired spiel that’s been played out since 1992.
A couple of interesting notes this morning:
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