my Eyedlmode “Fogville” project on Bandcamp Daily daily.bandcamp.com/features/eye...

this is like the golden age of bozos

#5debutalbums9094 #NowPlaying Freestyle Fellowship - Too Whom it May Concern. Top 5 not even in question.

OK then, here's a WAV file download of the entire LP. ▶️ www.swisstransfer.com/d/28423248-d... bsky.app/profile/obso...

I wrote about Prince's "Another Lonely Christmas" for Spin's Deep Cut Friday column: www.spin.com/2025/12/deep...

Coming up in the 70s my cuz DeeNee taught me about funk, mom's friend Bubba introduced me to disco and Uncle Carl schooled me on the magic of Miles Davis. My essay on imformal music lessons "Fly Away: On Jazz," appears in the new Kevin Powell edited website The Game. thegame.visibility.art

This entire weekend

Today marks 4 years since my friend, mentor and brillant writer Greg Tate died at the age of 64. He'd been in my city the month before, but I'd blown off the oppertunity to hang-out, figurin' there would be a next time... --Afrodisiac: A Textual Meditation on Greg Tate lithub.com/afrodisiac-a...

Steve Cropper's death is as good a reminder as any that if you haven't seen HBO's wonderful docuseries on Stax Records—in which Cropper himself is featured—you gotta get on it www.npr.org/2024/05/24/1...

go watch “School Colors” (as mentioned in this article) about race relations at Berkeley High School in the early 90s) and have your mind blown at the echoes out to today

Ok, with this year being what it has, we all deserved and needed this today. Do yourself a favor and watch it. You deserve it.

We spoke to Ras Kass about coming up in Watts & Carson, his early encounters w/ 'Pac & Rick Rubin, the making of "Soul on Ice," collaborating w/ Dre, the "Home Sweet Home" controversy, major label nightmares & more One of my favorite Truth Hurts eps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKlM...

Happy 61st birthday to Sanchez. Throughout the 90s Sanchez was in the premier league of Jamaican singers. Best known for his sweet lovers tunes, he also recorded one of the greatest roots anthems of the decade... youtu.be/GVti33SqS6I?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky

cutty hayes/porter

"Drums are an essential part to hip-hop. It’s an essential part to all music. The first instrument. It’s the communicator." —Q-Tip, interviewed by Touré www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

Happy birthday to 2 living legends of reggae music, Marcia Griffiths and Cornell Campbell. They made their first recordings over 60 years ago and are still going strong today... Marcia - youtu.be/x2SVi1sBBYw?... Cornell - youtu.be/8pNvV8tTE5o?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky

Alice Wong, writer and disability activist, has died. She was an educator and a communicator and a warrior who lit the way. I’m grateful to have crossed paths with her. Rest in peace.

oh shit forgot i had this flic from backstage at msg this summer. pretty much the only politician i wouldn’t be embarrassed to know. “we’ll see if he can run the city tho” yeah yeah same with any mayor that’s the gig. having a genuinely good dude try is a big step up from these previous fucks.

well at least I’m not yet out of bourbon

LIQUID SWORDS turned 30???? Here’s my talk with the Genius wherein he breaks down his masterpiece track-by-track. magazine.waxpoetics.com/article/wu-t...

Danny Brown made one of the most creatively adventurous, sonically progressive, and best rap albums of the year. @sonraw.bsky.social went deep on the experimental hyperpop fusion, omnivorous eclecticism, and sense of liberation of "Stardust." www.passionweiss.com/2025/11/06/d...

wrote about armand hammer’s beautiful and bruised new album for @pitchfork.com

“Courage Under Fire” b/w “Freedom Now” By Aceyalone & MUMBLES Limited 45 🌋🌋🌋🌋 OUT TOMORROW !!!

this man @jamesgunn.bsky.social really out here touching rap grass this year

After a somewhat disappointing SC2, myself and Oliver Wang went in on the indisputable greatness of the first one for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/afte...

After a somewhat disappointing SC2, myself and Oliver Wang went in on the indisputable greatness of the first one for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/afte...

People my book would make an excellent Christmas present for: Hip-hop heads Readers who enjoy music biographies Readers who enjoy political history Lefties All the comrades, outlaws and generally scandalouz

Happy 74th birthday to Susan Cadogan. A librarian at the University of West Indies, she recorded her timeless version of Hurt So Good at Lee Perry's Black Ark studio in 1974. It features Mighty Diamonds on backing vocals... youtu.be/ZXXbTzuogBE?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky

rest in peace to PEACE of the Freestyle Fellowship

Dropping next week from Needle to the Groove Records: “Courage Under Fire” by the legendary Aceyalone + MUMBLES. A dark, dark song befitting these dark, dark times. Limited pressing of 300 45s. Taking orders 10/24/25 🌋🌋🌋🌋

A beautiful requiem for the miracle that was D'Angelo. The pen, the voice, the face, the talent. The three classics. The genius that he could summon by force of will. The impossibility of categorizing him. The void that his death leaves. By Abe Beame www.passionweiss.com/2025/10/14/d...

"In the Raw," on the making of D'Angelo's brilliant debut oBrown Sugar, can be read on the Wax Poetics website. #Dangelo

Could you imagine if Jay-Z took Columbia Records to court in 2001 bc Nas called him a "Tae Bo ho" in "Ether" ?

Live right now! the morning show with Open Mike Eagle: 100 best rap albums that I could think of | REACTIONS! (new Black Thought, Benny's nerds) twitch.tv/open_mike_ea...

for every post you make about a major pop album today i decree you make one bandcamp friday purchase

new music video 'ok but im the phone screen' produced by Child Actor youtu.be/p5POCJJsSZk

The last Cold Chillin’ album features an amazing performance from Kool G Rap and some top notch production. Great fall/winter album.

Public Enemy X Jimmy Kimmel Live #JimmyKimmel #FightThePower

Jimmy Kimmel walking into the studio tomorrow like www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyY-...

The nü crash course in magic orchestrated by Chester Watson Out this Monday

Every passing day is a different dystopian "didn't have_____ on my bingo card!" Joke that gets less and less funny.

In 50 years, we'll look back on this era of cancerous brain rot, nihilism & ideological extremes with shame & regret that we never did a thing about the social media algorithms designed to reward polarization, outrage & hatred. But in the meantime, we'll all be fodder for the content slaughter mill

these dudes spit all kinds of wild sex shit throughout people’s childhoods and adolescences now they’re clutching pearls at this shit? man I’m so tired of RAPPERS

Coming of age in the '70s & '80s there weren't many journalists of color writing for glossy magazines...and then hip-hop scene came along and contributed to the birth of a new generation of publications and scribes. --It's Like That: The Makings of a Hip-Hop Writer longreads.com/2019/06/10/i...