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Pelle Pelles and Postmodern Raps: Earl Sweatshirt Live at Royale Boston
Peace peace peace! I wrote a concert review for a small, fresh Boston music publication called Heartbreak News—I'm republishing those words here, a…
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Bringing A Beauty About Reason (or, BABAR); the questions, vol. 2
Some meditations on beauty, perception, and being read... also, a continuation of "the questions" column
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Flows Consciously Cascading into Liquid Swords
For Hip Hop's 50th anniversary, I wanted to re-publish my first-ever essay; I've been writing about rap since I was 17. Big gratitude to the publication…
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Ography
This is, I think, my most personal essay yet. I can't really write anything else until I let this go, though. Read on for my attempt at addressing our…
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Getting to the root(s) of the matter
Hey y'all; below I'm republishing an article I wrote for the Boston Ujima Project, a review of the Touching Roots exhibition space at the MFA!
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taking on 'lo-fi'
Some loosely organized thoughts follow; read on for me nerding out about 'lo-fi beats to chill to'
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pretty boy goes to work
thought I'd take the extra time I've got this month to republish some old shit; this is a piece I worked on in 2019 for Infinite Magazine, on workwear…
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Hey DJ can you play that song!
a short read on listening to and learning from sound selectors
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Marvin Gaye's Midnight Love turns 40
one of the most impressive R&B albums ever pressed to wax, Marvin forecasts future soul and calls on his impressive instincts while exploring new ground
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the questions, vol 1: commercial rap and rap commercials
incoming: more rap nerdery. I promise I'll let it go after this (or at least take a break lol), and write about trains or something. in the meantime…
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a funhouse of horrors
is anything enjoyable anymore?
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a pimp named slickback
rap in the 90s...it's creative, it's candid, it's controversial; but how much does the music dictate real life? and how much does real life dictate the…
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