Publicity-Stunt Single Backfires, Sorta [That's Life In The Inferno Of Postmodernity]

Last week brought the news that a Chicago outfit called the Smoke Jumpers had recorded a track called "My Flow So Tight," a "James Brown Is Dead"-ish piece of piffle that became newsworthy because of its chorus asking for the ass-kicking of one Chris Brown. In the five days that have passed, the song has been gaining steam both on the radio and at the iTunes Store—and it's also been causing steam to come out of the years of the Texas outfit called the Smoke Jumpers, a garage-rap outfit from Au...

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