Bookshelf Battle

In the late 1990s/early 2000’s, BQB and his childhood friend, Bernie Plotznick, rose to a mediocre level of fame as a wholesome rap duo known as “The Funky Hunks.”

BQB argued the duo should rap about standard rap fare, i.e guns, drugs, and beatches.   Bernie would have none of it, insisting that the group should only rap about wholesome subjects like looking both ways before crossing the street and not talking to strangers.

Bernie won, and while the duo’s debut album, Nonthreatening White Boys, found moderate success amongst a niche audience of forty something ladies in blue denim stretch pants, it was universally panned and ignored by youths of the day around the turn of the millennium.

BQB, back in his Funky Hunk days, when he rapped under the moniker, “Read N. Plenty.”  BQB hanged up his yellow coat long ago.

When the group failed, BQB and Bernie went their separate ways.  BQB found success as the host of a blog with 3.5 readers.  Bernie, on the other hand, bitterly clinged to the idea of a Funky Hunk Resurgence.

Bernie “MC Plotz” Plotznick, who dresses like this even today.

Bernie can be found by the East Randomtown freeway offramp, selling oranges to support himself and writing new rhymes in a notebook.