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STARS AND THEIR EARS: BORIS JOHNSON

Our UK office has been running a column in which famous London locals review new music, but they're all people no one knows or cares about over in the US so we've never run it. But today they got London Mayor (and Oxford classics graduate) Boris...

Our UK office has been running a column in which

famous London locals review new music, but they're all people no one knows or cares about over in the US so we've never run it. But t

oday they got London Mayor (and Oxford classics graduate) Boris Johnson to tackle the latest LP by Cambridge UK hip-hop outfit Delegates of Culture. Yes, we know this album is a bit old but we gave Mayor Johnson the CD about six months ago but he's been too busy planning an underground airline to replace the Jubilee Line to send a review until now. Take it away, good Mayor

Firstly, I think it's wholly inappropriate that these dole-queue louts are calling themselves "delegates of culture." They clearly know nothing about Byzantine architecture, Cicero's letters, Virgil's poems, or a good game of rugby, so for them to appoint themselves as representatives of refinement and erudition and good taste is quite frankly ridiculous. What do these dolts know about class? In fact what does anyone from Cambridge know about class? Nothing, that's what. I think a far more fitting name for this gaggle of plebs would be "Three Podgy Lumpenproletariat Ruffians." Moreover, the trio of chaps on the cover of this offensive artifact parading as a popular music disc are uglier than the three heads of Cerberus. Look at them, smoking their cheap cigars and looking like bulbous gerbils. I bet if someone shoved a Cohiba Behike under their flaccid nostrils they would slice it open with a kitchen knife and replace its sweet intestines with pungent hemp. I noticed one of the numbers on this compact disc is called "Hip-Hop Side Effect" – but it fails to mention many of the side effects that I associate with this filth. Crime, teenage pregnancy, hoodies, chewing gum stuck to the pavement, jewelry on men – all direct effects of "hip-hop." I'll tell you something else: these morons aren't "Bad Guys." Their tales of cannabis-induced stupor in the slums of Cambridge are nothing compared to the shenanigans I was a part of in my days at Balliol. My nights on the town with the Bullingdon Club are now part of local folklore. Let's just say I was more than happy to debag anyone who would get in our path! Further, if any of these louts would like to challenge me to a linguistics battle, I would gladly crush them. It would be like Odysseus's righteous yet brutal slaying of the repugnant suitors of his sweet Penelope in Ithica. I would like nothing better than to expel these insolent pups and their kind from this land, like the Lapiths cast out the filthy sub-human Centaurs from Thessaly.