Rap songs about goofing off in the studio > rap skits about smoking a bong/peeing in a toilet

Toad the Wet Sprocket

i wrote about The Life of a Showgirl

Ironically, I wrote a review praising Mighty Joseph in Paper Thin Walls, my longtime colleague Christopher Weingarten's website with Getty Images. But the site went dark in 2009, so Below System Records probably doesn't know it exists. Luckily, I saved a PDF of it.

Today, I received a press release for a vinyl reissue of Mighty Joseph's underrated 2008 album, "Empire State." Its presale page on belowsystem.com falsely attributes some PR hype I reprinted on my old website, Plugonemag.com, to me.

Ha, you think you have PTSD memories...

Great album, but PTSD memories of hearing this at shitty college dorm room parties are making me nauseous.

Replaying this for the first time in years (decades?), I’m struck by how much it’s inspired by the Fats Comet/Shango/Orange Krush/Bill Laswell era of rap production.

I’m ashamed to report that despite how tedious I find him in general, Westside Gunn’s latest album is kinda entertaining.

Sounds like a nice person. www.hotnewhiphop.com/949535-cardi...

I’m not going to be the first to post about this today. Oh wait…

For those that follow me here because of my website, I posted my 100 Best Rap Singles of 2005. humthrush.com/the-100-best...

I'm trying to think of a good rock comp to Kurtis Blow – someone who only sold 50-100k albums but still had their stuff repressed. Maybe (spitballing here) Van Morrison or John Hiatt? Also, I wonder if a lack of major headline touring (other than KOOL/Fresh Fest-style packages) was a factor.

My review of Young Thug's latest: "Perhaps *UY Scuti* would be better if Thug realized what’s at stake. Or maybe the problem is that he *knows* his A-list status is in question, but he’s too broken by the experience of being incarcerated to properly address it." www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Kudos to Nikole Hannah-Jones for this. (Bouie’s op-ed, by comparison, felt constrained by its editors.) But it doesn’t absolve NYT’s lack of courage in the heat of the moment, when consent for Kirk’s rancid contribution to public discourse was being manufactured. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

Sorry, still processing. But I can definitively say that Blood Orange's "Westerberg" is one of the most fey reworks of a classic alt-rock song ("Alex Chilton") I've heard.

Sometimes I wonder why I don’t have more rap heads in my network…then I remember what usually happens when I try to build with those folks.

Lmfao he deleted, but the North remembers. An account calling itself The Editorial Board not being able to do basic searches on the site they post on, let alone the world wide web, is hilarious

Free listicle idea: top 10 songs by children of rap stars who rap about how their “biological didn’t bother”…

This is a stylish homage to Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Spirit” by designer Darrell Krum. It’s for “Natural Forces,” a remix project of Masta Ace hits by Tom Caruana.

@philipsherburne.bsky.social Oh snap, I just figured out that you put out Patricia Wolf’s album on your label. Kudos.

Man…stop being the little “told you so” asshole you used to be on Twitter. Who cares if it took Kimmel to wake some normies up? Get off your high horse and organize them while you still have the opportunity.

“There’s a war going on outside no one is safe from. You can run, but you can’t hide forever.” - Prodigy

Feel free to steal. David Zaslav isn’t returning my calls anyway.

Lavar Ball…Dennis Robertson…I see a dramedy here.

Listened to that album for the first time last week, and liked it a lot!

Someone drown me so I can escape this awful world and build a better civilization with Drexciya…

Grammatical plague of the decade: using “did” for unnecessary emphasis in sentences. (Example: “She did attend the gala.”)

Here’s a little story for a rough week…thank god I found you.

KALX announced during this evening’s news broadcast that it wouldn’t name their new staffers for the school year on-air due to “the tumultuous political climate.”

So much violence...

Kate Schellenbach from Luscious Jackson wrote an entertaining piece about her years as a Beastie Boys co-founder. There's some nice details about life as a middle-class boho kid in early 80s Manhattan. lusciousjackson.substack.com/p/when-i-was...

Have you ever listened to a well reviewed recording that was so thoroughly haphazard and mediocre that it made you question the reviewer’s judgment? That’s how I feel about [censored].

Organized Konfusion, “Prisoners of War” 🤝 Eric B. & Rakim, “Casualties of War”

When racial profiling turns into “indiscriminate stops”…

love CupcakKe, another undeniable talent conspicuously absent from that HNHH list cc @humthrush.bsky.social

This was a super banger back in the day.

Osaka v Anisimova got me talking at the TV...

Of course, one could ask why they only came up with 50 rap albums by women...but that's neither here nor there. I'm just curious what the kids are doing.

I wish Bluesky rap chatter was more robust so I could see feedback on this. The list isn’t terrible. Still, I’m not buying how G-funk cultists want to elevate Ruthless Records gadfly Tairrie B’s terrible album (where she raps “I’m white” over and over). www.hotnewhiphop.com/939410-top-5...

"It was the 3rd of September..."

"Far-left influencers"

Neoliberal rap

Neoliberal rap critics

The Oral History of Brostep

It's Burning Man week in the Bay. (h/t The Guardian)

(shrugs) I’m old enough to remember when NYT debated “The Black Man Is in Terrible Trouble. Whose Problem Is That?”