There is a song, or rather the intro and background of a song that keeps popping up all over the place. BBC 4 uses it as a theme in adverts for documentary style television programs. A U.K. newspaper The Independent, that distributes free books in its issues, this week being Great Philosophers, uses it for its commercials. The piano chords rhythmically tinkling along as images of Socrates, Plato, Kant, Descartes, Sartre, Hume and others float by. It is such an unexpected melody to be hearing knowing the source. A jarring juxtaposition. I kept hearing it and it was really bothering me that I couldn't quite put my finger on what the song actually was. Mark and I scoured YouTube and song titles. We had an idea of who the artist could possibly be. I could even picture the video in my mind's eye, "You know, the one with the car with the bouncing hydrolics and the scantily clad women?" We even called up a friend who DJ's and thought given our vague description he could help us narrow it down, "Yeah, and I bet it also references drive by's and chronic!" he retorted. In the world of gangsta rap, my white girl ruminations and memory of the song could not really narrow it down.

Finally, after what was hours of trying to figure it out, I had an "AH HA!" moment, found the video and started playing it and both Mark and my eyes went wide with our knowing grins. What song am I talking about? I'm talking about "Still D.R.E." by Dr. Dre, featuring Snoop Dogg. Because, you know, when I'm thinking about philosophers and serious documentaries, of course a gangsta rap song immediately come to my mind!