| 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.
| 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 Weirdest Rap Collaborations Of All-Time | January 16, 2018 |
Joel Biswas swims through the abyss of '90s/early 2000s rap-rock to track down the best (and worst) of the genre.
| America’z Most Complete Artist: A Guide to DJ Quik | October 16, 2014 |
The only guide to the music of DJ Quik that you'll ever need.
| The Third Mixtape of Spring – Max Bell | April 24, 2014 |
Max Bell is just chillin eating lamb brain I gave up on my unspoken dream of becoming a rapper a long time ago. There are enough decent white rappers and Aesop Rock is already Aesop Rock. But there was a time when I wrote rhymes in the margins of college ruled notebooks, more focused on […]
| 360 Degrees to Make the Cypher Complete: Rating The 2012 BET Cyphers | October 11, 2012 |
Max Bell finds the revulsion invigorating. Another year. Another BET awards. Another round of ciphers. I give you my thoughts off the top of the dome. But really though, off the top of the dome. Seriously, I didn’t write this, look at it, think about it, and then try to make it sound better or […]
