Torii MacAdams, a Pisces, has been told his mellow demeanor is typical of Water Signs. Raised in Silver Lake by a series of house cats, MacAdams would go on to have a mostly undistinguished basketball career. He now has a mostly undistinguished writing career. MacAdams is a graduate of Handsome Boy Modeling School.
MacAdams is a frequent contributor to his inner monologue, and can be found on Twitter at Twitter.com/ToriiMacDaddy or on Tinder at Torii, 24.
Currently Listening: Lee Morgan - Sonic Boom Kyle Hall aka KMFH - The Boat Party Mr Mitch - Parallel Memories DJ Zirk - 2 Thick Misty Roots - Live At Counter Eurovision --------------------------- Currently Watching: Los Angeles Lakers (self-flagellating) ---------------------------Currently Reading:
The Boys in The Boat by Daniel Brown Henry & Glenn Forever by Tom Neely Root For The Villain: Rap, Bull$hit, And A Celebration of Failure by J-Zone
Torii MacAdams insists on trial by combat The rapid ascendance of electronic music, from the sound of subcultures to arena-cramming, Billboard-busting tour de fucking force, is remarkable. Dance music in the United States has become as pluralistic as our barely functioning country, running the gamut from analog, jackin’ house to the stupidly labeled “EDM,” the […]
| Striking Where The Mason-Dixon Line is Crossed: Gene The Southern Child “Southern Meridian” | July 18, 2014 |
Torii MacAdams is blood simple “‘Bama.” My Texan housemate uses it as both noun and adjective. Not to be confused with “bammer,” “‘Bama” is supposed to simultaneously connote inferiority and desolate, country bumpkin simplicity. An example: “He’s from some ‘Bama ass part of Texas.” Gene the Southern Child, who hails from Florence, Alabama, has a […]
| Summer Mixtape: Torii MacAdams | July 10, 2014 |
Torii MacAdams just finished wiping his car down Summer jams are supposed to be breezy, feel-good anthems, girding the assumption that shit is sweet. It’s easy to view summertime with soft-focus nostalgia, especially in Southern California, a supposed paradise marketed to doe-eyed outsiders since the mid-Nineteenth Century. The truth is, the proverbial shit ain’t sweet, […]
| Diary of Houston’s Doeman: “Jodeci” | July 7, 2014 |
Torii MacAdams learned how to rock leather pants from DeVante Swing Houston is, demographically, significantly more Hispanic and Latino than Black, and has the third largest Hispanic population in the United States. Despite the strength in numbers, Houston’s rap stars are traditionally Black, with Hispanic and Latino rappers constituting an even further underground sub-culture. In […]
| He’ll Be Fine: Visionist Wears His Heart On His Beats | June 23, 2014 |
Torii MacAdams wears King Tut jewelry George Santayana wrote that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” That statement is an annoying platitude at best, but that doesn’t make it entirely untrue. On a macro level, the nation nervously adjusts its collective protective cup in preparation for a possible third kick […]
| Lone Tests The Theory of Reality | June 17, 2014 |
Torii MacAdams is the daddy of the mack, daddy The first time I heard Lone, it sounded like a hip-hop head had gotten really high playing Super Mario Sunshine, and decided to make dance beats influenced by those restive moments in front of his Gamecube. The song was “Once in Awhile,” the cheery steel drums […]
| The Corrections: Big Moe – “City of Syrup” | May 30, 2014 |
Torii MacAdams always chooses purple stuff over Sunny D It’s been about ten years since Mike Jones, Paul Wall, Slim Thug, and Chamillionaire got regular airplay, and Houston is again ubiquitous. A$AP Rocky has weaseled his way into synonimity with the word “trill” thanks to repeated usage, his supposed love for lean, and syrupy chopped […]
