Where I'm From

In another instalment of hip-hop nostalgia I bring you Digable Planets. I'll spare you my usual rant on how hip-hop lost its bearings and how back then music had soul and blah blah we don't care old man...

However I will mention I was pretty surprised to hear this verse

"we be readin' Marx where I'm from, the kids be rockin Clarks where I'm from"

They be reading Marx where your from?? As in Karl Marx, the founder of such socioeconomic notions as alienated labour and the idea of an economic superstructure ? They must have been educated in the ghettos in 93, nowadays all the kids wanna do is learn how to dougie. That's my 2 cents...