I’ve lived in Japan for almost seven years. When you’re the youngest sibling, you get to benefit off of the mistakes that your parents made with their older children. Through watching your family you learn about human behavior. Like search engines and social media, it uses what it knows about you to warp your perspective. Its forever loving, sociopathic, opportunistic, and self-hating. Drama distracts you from revolting against its emotional hypnosis. You have been warned. At home I got a …
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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 …
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 …
Last month, alone, I flew home to Orlando, Florida. This time, Kantra understood that I was leaving. Haruki was stabbing me with her tears.“I will hang your underwear outside so people will think that you’re still here,” she said.When my bus pulled off Kantra chased after me. Haruki hugged her. Kantra stomped the earth.I didn’t want to go the closer it got to leaving. It’s like driving into a storm cloud on a flat plain. This was my first trip …
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