| A New Request From H-Town: Houston Rap Tape Radio | July 29, 2014 |
Torii MacAdams is rockin knockin the boots If you love Houston rap, you know that the unassumingly titled Houston Rap: Photographs by Peter Beste is an indispensable document of H-Town’s rich rap history. Though the photos were captured by Beste, hence the title, the actual author of the compendium is one of Texas’ own exes, […]
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 […]
