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Dear fledgling writers: Never begin an attack on a book's ideas with the sentence, "I never actually read the book." (And yes, this is a shot.)
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Dear fledgling writers: Never begin an attack on a book's ideas with the sentence, "I never actually read the book." (And yes, this is a shot.)
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That comment also bugs me out and I'm the estate!
November 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
That comment also bugs me out and I'm the estate!
Rap and R&B musicians deserve as much critical generosity as your boilerplate indie/"electronic"/pop/hyperpop/meme act. A claim that "Well, it's not as good as this Grammy-winning comeback classic from a decade ago" feels like an unreasonable standard.
Mixed feelings on the new De La Soul album. Big improvement over the 2016 one, with a much more solid sense of what it wants to be and what listeners want, but it doesn't have the creativity to stand as their own Thank You 4 Your Service. Safe to a fault.
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Rap and R&B musicians deserve as much critical generosity as your boilerplate indie/"electronic"/pop/hyperpop/meme act. A claim that "Well, it's not as good as this Grammy-winning comeback classic from a decade ago" feels like an unreasonable standard.
I reviewed De La Soul's "Cabin in the Sky." www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
De La Soul Overcome Grief by Embracing the Promise of Life
De La Soul overcome grief by embracing the promise of life on ‘Cabin in the Sky.’
www.rollingstone.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I reviewed De La Soul's "Cabin in the Sky." www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Rest in peace to Udo Kier.
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Rest in peace to Udo Kier.
Ha ha…there’s a long tradition of rappers and R&B singers making songs inspired by their managers’ lives, but fans think it’s about *them*.
Confessions being all about Jermaine Dupri shenanigans also makes it that much funnier.
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Ha ha…there’s a long tradition of rappers and R&B singers making songs inspired by their managers’ lives, but fans think it’s about *them*.
This sentence from the NYT story on college radio bugs me out. We all know that Arthur Russell is dead, right? A record label can't sign *him*, just whoever owns his estate. It's strange how folks freely confuse the two entities now.
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This sentence from the NYT story on college radio bugs me out. We all know that Arthur Russell is dead, right? A record label can't sign *him*, just whoever owns his estate. It's strange how folks freely confuse the two entities now.
Peace to HD Angel, one of the few folks I met on Twitter who I can honestly say I would’ve never met if not for Twitter. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Newcleus: Jam on Revenge
Read H.D. Angel’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Peace to HD Angel, one of the few folks I met on Twitter who I can honestly say I would’ve never met if not for Twitter. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
@obsofdeviance.bsky.social Did you see this?
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
@obsofdeviance.bsky.social Did you see this?
I know it isn’t kosher to critique other rap pieces. But rap writing historically suffers from a serious lack of empathy and an ugly “dudes” perspective, at least with reviews/analysis. (Columns and feature writing isn’t as bad.) As I get older, I feel compelled to occasionally push back on that.
November 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I know it isn’t kosher to critique other rap pieces. But rap writing historically suffers from a serious lack of empathy and an ugly “dudes” perspective, at least with reviews/analysis. (Columns and feature writing isn’t as bad.) As I get older, I feel compelled to occasionally push back on that.
Also, the irony isn’t lost on me that the writer compared a famously gay musician to a rapper who famously gay-bashed an artist on his own label.
I can’t be more specific for political reasons, and I know it’s just a dunk (ha ha). But comparing The Smiths to Drake encapsulates how so many music writers delude themselves by boasting that they’ve heard “everything,” but in reality they didn’t understand any of it.
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Also, the irony isn’t lost on me that the writer compared a famously gay musician to a rapper who famously gay-bashed an artist on his own label.
I can’t be more specific for political reasons, and I know it’s just a dunk (ha ha). But comparing The Smiths to Drake encapsulates how so many music writers delude themselves by boasting that they’ve heard “everything,” but in reality they didn’t understand any of it.
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I can’t be more specific for political reasons, and I know it’s just a dunk (ha ha). But comparing The Smiths to Drake encapsulates how so many music writers delude themselves by boasting that they’ve heard “everything,” but in reality they didn’t understand any of it.
I just want to make clear that I will always love Klay.
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I just want to make clear that I will always love Klay.
It kills me how folks – even good center-left outlets – stay glued to the YIMBY narrative. I'm not arguing for state takeover. But given the stock available, it seems worth exploring tax-and-regulation solutions as well as building yet more market-rate housing for investors to stash their money in.
"Claim" is doing quite a bit of work here. Don't want to get too deep, but here's an example of several stories on empty housing units in California: www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It kills me how folks – even good center-left outlets – stay glued to the YIMBY narrative. I'm not arguing for state takeover. But given the stock available, it seems worth exploring tax-and-regulation solutions as well as building yet more market-rate housing for investors to stash their money in.
"Claim" is doing quite a bit of work here. Don't want to get too deep, but here's an example of several stories on empty housing units in California: www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Claim" is doing quite a bit of work here. Don't want to get too deep, but here's an example of several stories on empty housing units in California: www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Stand up against business techno!
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Stand up against business techno!
Probably the only rapper that can sample dialogue from “Dead Poets Society” and not have it sound cliché or corny.
Happy Navy Blue day.
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Probably the only rapper that can sample dialogue from “Dead Poets Society” and not have it sound cliché or corny.
Happy Navy Blue day.
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Happy Navy Blue day.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that my social media timelines are stuffed with recaps of Andre 3000’s speech — and nothing for Salt’s far more relevant call for artists’s rights. Rap culture remains a boys’ club.
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that my social media timelines are stuffed with recaps of Andre 3000’s speech — and nothing for Salt’s far more relevant call for artists’s rights. Rap culture remains a boys’ club.
Underground hip-hop trend I'm struggling to figure out: dudes who rap fast like they're canvassing at a high-school debate competition.
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Underground hip-hop trend I'm struggling to figure out: dudes who rap fast like they're canvassing at a high-school debate competition.
Souls is hitting right now.
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Souls is hitting right now.
I wrote the HipHop & R&B column this month: Ahkatari's "Blood: Act 1," Armand Hammer & The Alchemist's "Mercy," Danny Brown's "Stardust," keiyaA's "Hooke’s Law," Kelly Moonstone's "New Moon," and Princess Nokia's "Girls." I also reviewed DJ Premier & Roc Marciano's "The Coldest Profession."
The Wire 502 is out now!
Featuring Mulatu Astatke on the cover, plus Griot Galaxy, Emergence Collective, Test Dept’s Invisible Jukebox, Konrad Smoleński, Alpha Maid, and much, much more.
Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
Featuring Mulatu Astatke on the cover, plus Griot Galaxy, Emergence Collective, Test Dept’s Invisible Jukebox, Konrad Smoleński, Alpha Maid, and much, much more.
Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I wrote the HipHop & R&B column this month: Ahkatari's "Blood: Act 1," Armand Hammer & The Alchemist's "Mercy," Danny Brown's "Stardust," keiyaA's "Hooke’s Law," Kelly Moonstone's "New Moon," and Princess Nokia's "Girls." I also reviewed DJ Premier & Roc Marciano's "The Coldest Profession."
I write like a soft punk. I walk down the street and get jumped.
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I write like a soft punk. I walk down the street and get jumped.