THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF RAP

is a deeply cinematic affair, its boom-bap blasted to shit by shifty cyberpunk unease and its narrator a snarling clever-ass who retains slipping facial area-1st into hassle. Brian Beletic’s online video for “Deep Space 9mm” follows El-P via a grainy put up-9/11 NYC wherein violence lurks all around every corner, fairly actually: cabbies, bar