On rapper Milo’s latest record, who told you to think??!!?!?!?! the black emperor’s robe probably has a single hand clapping on the back. His throne is rusted chrome, encrusted with knocking-knee rappers’ bones, whose rhymes couldn’t hit a quarter note if the Lawn Mowerman rigged an arcade by telephone. who told you seems like a polaroid of the moment Milo became a man. He got married and had a baby. Staring at a crack in the wall to conjure a …
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For my Tokyo hip-hop heads, this where I’ll be spending my Friday night, 90 BPM Takeover. …
“We were totally blind sided by the first attacks,” rapper and producer M.Sayyid said about the January 2015 Paris terror attacks. For his Parisian wife, him and his 14-year-old daughter moved to Paris in 2013. “It was ambitious,” he said. He was living in the French Capitol, out of his New York, Yonkers element. “I felt really uncomfortable not being in control.” The second wave of horror would happen in November of that same year, surpassing what was already thought …
I was a guest on The Mega Late Show earlier this month and the episode just dropped today. This was my first podcast. We were drinking beers in the wee afternoon. I sound sedated and awkward. Listening to myself made me cringe, but Mega and Late were good hosts to pop my cherry to. It was casual. Felt like we were just kicking it talking shit. Realizing that people can actually listen to me mumble rap halfway into a mic, I …
The new Oddisee video for his single “I Grew Up” off his latest album, Iceberg, is a simple animated illustration of the beautiful idea and complicated reality of America. A place of slaves and immigrants, telling the world to: Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Oddisee’s character sketches are intentionally skeletal. They’re archetypes that, through the usage of time, cultivate into juxtaposing views. A system built on white supremacy can’t do anything else, …
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