| Black Star’s ‘No Fear of Time’: Or, How Uploading an Album as a Podcast Could Take Back Control From Big Streaming | June 15, 2022 |
The new Black Star album could have been a reminder of the web’s great potential, rather than another easily-mockable example of its worst qualities.
What makes 'Soundbombing II' such a fun listen is that it’s structured like a mixtape or an underground hip hop radio show, with stylistically diverse rappers blending into one another.
| B Boys Will B Boys: An Oral History of Black Star | December 19, 2018 |
Jack Riedy presents an oral history of the watershed 1998 album.
| The Rap Up: Week of May 6 | May 6, 2016 |
Burberry Perry and Lil Yachty go to Calabasas, Chance The Rapper goes to Church, plus new Lil Duke, Birdman, and Mos Def, er, Yasiin Bey
| Off The Books: “Big Machine” by Victor LaValle | May 12, 2015 |
Off the Books returns with Harold Stallworth, who recommends checking out the alternatively bleak and hilarious, "Big Machine."
| Beyond Fame: Yasiin Bey Quietly Covers Doom | April 9, 2015 |
When/If he'll return to the U.S.A. remains unknown
| Rework the Angles – Mos Def “The New Danger” | March 19, 2015 |
In his latest volume of Re-Work the Angles, Zilla Rocca fixes up ""The New Danger" and makes it look sharp.
| Winter Mix: Harold Stallworth | January 7, 2015 |
H.L. is first in the Passion of the Weiss re-up gang to sate your winter mix fix
| Summer Mixtape: Brad Beatson | July 4, 2014 |
Brad Beatson turns down only for freedom. In the summer, I’m looking to push play on a playlist and let it ride. It’s too beautiful out. And I know it’s inevitable that some drunken fingertips will hijack the music at some point to play what they want to. So this is my grand attempt at […]
| Spring Mix – Zilla Rocca | May 20, 2014 |
Zilla Rocca is a 5 O’clock Shadowboxer holding the sector After the hellish winter we suffered along the east coast in 2013-2014, where 60 inches of snow pelted us into psychological mince meat, the spring of 2014 has been a mirage of sorts – 80 degree temperatures overtaken by rain, cool nights, and beautiful sunny […]
