The Minnesota 150

The Minnesota History Center is currently running an exhibit called "MN150: The People, Places, and Things that shape our state."

The list includes the GPS system, Hubert H. Humphrey, the 1980 Olympic Hockey Team, Prince, Native American Boarding Schools, The Greyhoud Busline, Paul Wellstone, etc.

I went to the museum with my mom this morning for her birthday. She enthusiastically pointed out the Atmosphere display to me, because I swear this woman refuses to let the 14-year-old caricature of Nasimiyu just gracefully slip away into the darkness.

I stopped myself short of screaming out, "It was a phase!" in time to be rendered dumbfounded by the exhibit.

Can we just geek out for a moment over the significance of this? What this means for music, culture, hip hop, young people, independent artists, and Minnesota's history? This recognition might not come as so much of a suprise by today's standards, but let's put ourselves in our 6-years-ago shoes. There would have been no way, NO WAY, we would have seen something like this coming.


Can we just take a second to wrap our minds around the concept of my mom dancing to an Atmosphere track in the History Museum?




Yeah, see now you know where I get my skillz from.