| Satin Black in the Desert: Hanni El Khatib x Freddie Gibbs | January 16, 2015 |
Max Bell never gives up. The second season of True Detective has been cast. If only Hanni El Khatib and Freddie Gibbs had auditioned, if only they acted. Instead, both would rather reflect on 2Pac in the desert in ’95: fresh from Clinton Correctional, Mad Max leather fetish in full effect. Gibbs took the rhymes and […]
| Shades of Blues and Blakroc: Hanni El Khatib’s “Moonlight” | November 11, 2014 |
Max Bell is looking for a spoonful. Hanni El Khatib likes hip-hop. See his website for the pictures of Outkast and vintage Mac Dre album covers. For aural evidence, listen to his latest single, “Moonlight.” The title track of his next album — out via Innovative Leisure in January of 2015 –“Moonlight” sounds as if it […]
| 2013’s Most Overlooked Albums | January 7, 2014 |
Max Bellwas once traded for Pau Gasol. Some pale and anemic soul slumped behind a computer will soon devise an algorithm compiling a list of all the lists on the Internet. Said meta-list will be outdated the minute it goes up; that is unless there’s some automatic refresh built-in. Until that ominous day the Mayans […]
| Video: Hanni El Khatib – “Pay No Mind” | July 23, 2013 |
You say no to ratchet cheerleaders, Hanni El Khatib can’t. If Miley Cyrus can twerk, Hanni El Khatib has full license, nay endorsement, to wrangle a squad of video vixens. The director Simon Cahn said he wanted to go for the “opposite of rock and roll imagery.” I don’t know if I agree. The obverse […]
