Entertainment escalating toward death — the predicted "snuff" record
echoes
From: Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
- Early text: M.'s whole section 2D: rap publicists will hit porn's wall — every symbolic shock spent, an audience trained to need bloodier novelty; "The result: our first ‘snuff’ rap record, which, rumor will have it, an actual person died making." [m-2d:p3] [e-text]
- IJ echo: the Entertainment as the asymptote of entertainment-appetite (entertainment-lethality's continuity reading: the samizdat as terminal-stage TV; Marathe/Steeply, scene 072, pp. 317-321) — IJ flips the fatality from performer to viewer.
- Weight: shared-preoccupation