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“If the Henry sinks, where’ll you be?”

And ever since Kanye West and Drake began steering the genre into a new century, they’ve been bending it back toward the zone of vulnerability where LL proudly stood during 1987’s “I Need Love,” our planet’s first mega-massive rap ballad.

"Billy, how do we know the prince ain't laid a trap for us in that message? He could have said one thing and wrote another. Where'll we find someone to read it off to us?"

“Maybe surprise you all by a sudden disappearance: then where’ll my book be? That’s the one thing that excites me: most authors have the same dread – the dread that something or other essential that they have written may somehow become side-tracked, lost – lost forever.”

So the question remains: Where'll you go, Linklater?