MOG

Here's a tune from Wynton's 2007 album called "Where y'all at". It's a rant about hiphop by the uptown yacht club trumpet maestro. The song's not bad, but a criticism on Village Voice goes "The whole thing becomes embarrassing only on "Where Y'All At?," when ego escalates into hubris and Marsalis tries to beat "big baggy-pants wearers with the long white T-shirts" at their own game. "They're rapping straight in the time," he criticizes the hip-hop his teenage sons listen to in a recent JazzTimes Q&A. "I told them, 'I'm gonna come up with a rap that goes all across the time.'"

There's the know-it-all gesture in his face, but most of what he said is right. I have mixed feelings about it. Discuss.