Many people consider Bob Dylan's classic "Subterranean Homesick Blues" one of the major precursors to rap music, an electric fusing of "labyrinthine rhyme schemes, anti-authority philosophy, pop-culture obsessions and street-level turns-of-slang." That connection certainly seems to be important to his grandson, hip hop artist Pablo Dylan: “I mean, really, my grandfather, I consider him the Jay-Z of his time," Pablo Dylan told AllHipHop.com.
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Bob Dylan's Grandson: "I Consider Him the Jay-Z Of His Time"
Grandfather Shoots Grandson Over Noise Argument
An elderly member of the Grucci fireworks family shot his grandson yesterday after a heated argument over noise. Joseph Grucci, the cousin of former Republican congressman and fireworks magnate Felix Grucci, got into a fight with his grandson, Christopher Giresi, when Giresi had some friends over around 3 a.m. Thursday night and repeatedly refused to keep the noise down. Grucci told cops his grandson actually attacked him when he told the youngins to shut up; after that, Grucci got his shotgun and fired at the 20-year-old from about 20 feet away in his Bellport, Long Island home.
Rev. Timothy Wright Recovering, Doesn't Know of Wife's Death
Last Friday, Rev. Timothy Wright, the pastor of the Grace Tabernacle Christian Center in Crown Heights, was critically injured in a car crash in Pennsylvania that fatally injured his wife and 14-year-old grandson.
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