Anyone else notice the credits for S3 of White Lotus use the same sample as Burial’s “Endorphin”?

Major label rap is so stagnant rn. Big X sampled Stay Fly only last October, now Key Glock has done it. Get some new ideas!

Happy new DjRUM music day to all who celebrate 🎉

Some days I struggle to see myself as an academic. Others – like today when I got really excited about a new magazine repository – reaffirm that I am indeed a massive nerd. Check this out: rilm.org/rapmm. Launching May 27!

Today, I launch the next stage of my PhD research into rave culture in #EastAnglia (that’s #Cambridgeshire, #Norfolk and #Suffolk) between 1989 and 2019. I’m looking for former and current ravers who partied in the region to fill in a quick online survey about their experiences.

On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate Minnesota’s transgender community and recommit to standing up for our neighbors in the face of hatred. As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.

Rest in Peace to Caspar Melville, one of the loveliest and warmest souls I’ve ever encountered in this sorry thing we call life. A great scholar, curious mind, and mentor to many. Devastating news, and such a huge loss 🕊️

Moved house. Met the neighbours today!

Disqualify Open University for thinking Chick Corea wrote watermelon man, outrageous stuff

Very sad to hear of David Johansen’s passing. For some bizarre reason the New York Dolls headlined a Cow Shed in Canterbury back in 2008. I was 16 and it was at my first ever festival. The sound in that place was awful, but their performance was sensational—something I’ll never forget. RIP 🕊️

Congratulations to BRIT winners Charli XCX (Bishop's Stortford College, £38,319 per year), AG Cook (King Alfred School, £27,747) and The Last Dinner Party (Bedales, £52,075) for showing that people from ordinary backgrounds can reach the top in pop music, that most egalitarian of art forms.

William Boyd on Desert Island Discs an absolute car crash: “We had servants but there was no tension”; “my mother moved from Nigeria to Switzerland and became more sophisticated”. How is no one checking this colonial dinosaur?

Are you in Amsterdam on March 13 and 14? Then this symposium might be of interest to you: The Power of Stories: The Impact of Narrative Form, Structure and Complexity in Modern Society Symposium vu-storylab.nl?page_id=14 The event is open to the public and free of charge (registration is needed).

Damn. RIP, Roberta Flack. I was literally just talking about her Rock Hall induction speech for Little Richard this morning. In it, she calls out the Hall for excluding women in its first class. She died un-nominated, but left behind a formidable body of work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hut...

New album from Razor, out today. In My Own Time: reallyrazor.bandcamp.com/album/in-my-...

£180 to see Drake is wild at this moment in time. So…who wants to commission me to go and write about it? 🥲

In-between houses, so running my old Grade 8 pieces as classical guitar only instrument I have access to right now: fingers in absolute bits, forgot I had callouses thicker than rhino skin back in the day!

RIP Terror Danjah The best ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=0095...

New(ish) book on grime is now available in paperback, and Routledge currently have a sale on! Available here: www.routledge.com/Level-Up-Liv...

Desperado’s double time flow is intangible cultural heritage

Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (1994), ATLiens (1996), Aquemini (1998), Stankonia (2000). Nothing comes close!

New album from Razor, out today. In My Own Time: reallyrazor.bandcamp.com/album/in-my-...

Thank you Berlin 👍

On my way to Berlin for Dancecult 25 — hopefully see some of you there!

Me, editing my own work

Top tip: don’t watch The Substance while eating your dinner

My main takeaway from this — aside from Onions being an absolute beauty — is who is checking their institutional email right now?

History

Blue Violet by DjRUM is a perfect song and I won’t hear anything to the contrary

Spent this morning inside the heads of the late-great Shaun Martin, and Robert Glasper. Never have time anymore, but transcribing solos is so vital to keeping your ear in check. Hoping I can keep this up in 2025

AOTY 2024

Absolute scenes

New(ish) book on grime is now available in paperback, and Routledge currently have a sale on! Available here: www.routledge.com/Level-Up-Liv...

My hate for Elon now outweighs the hate for ELO-adjacent social media platforms. So here I am.