Gather around the fire because New York Magazine has a story to sell. This week’s tale, Chasing Dash Snow, is the story of Dan Colen, Ryan McGinley, and Dash Snow, artists of the so-called “Bowery School” of art. It’s an interesting read, but the article’s search for an explanation of Dash Snow and his work only comes up short and rehashes a old news, so we’ll just side with IRAK crew’s own review, penned by Kunle: “A great big wack story, unless you’re Dan or Ryan, then you came out smelling like roses.”

Rather than sharing some colorful anecdote about Dash, as we’ve done in the past, we’re borrowing another example of Kunle’s on point wordsmanship from the article.

Kunle was there, too; a camera crew making a show about him for the Sundance Channel trailed his every move. A little white kid in a baseball hat came up to him and Kunle said, “You had a smart mouth, and that’s why you got smacked the other day. I’m Earsnot and you’re Naw: Don’t forget it.” Simon Curtis, out of jail and in a tie-dyed T-shirt, laughed at this.

And we’re laughing too.

How does New York Magazine compile a list of violence surrounding New York MCs and not list the shooting death of the Notorious B.I.G? Fabolous gets shot in the leg outside P. Diddy’s restaurant, Justin’s, and Amos Barshad writes:

And he thus entered the illustrious pantheon of New York MCs to get caught up with violence and cops. Join us for a stroll down memory lane, won’t you?

An excited crowd firing off celebratory shots at a Nas show is listed, while the murder of Brooklyn’s Finest isn’t even mentioned? Even more ridiculous: Puff Daddy’s incident in 1999 is characterized as “the mother of all New York rap-meets-gun tales, and still the one to top.” It was pretty epic the way Puffy tried bribing his bodyguard before letting Shyne go to jail for ten years. NY Magazine’s list is really a ramble down short term memory lane. Can we really start forgetting anything that happened 10 years ago?

Notorious BIG photo from Diverse Images.