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And the final piece, our ultimate creation; THE LINX MAG #1. A real deal magazine you can order and hold I'm your hands and show your friends and use as a fan and kill bugs with. Cop yours today 🔗

To start off our year end list season; TOP 5 ALVE, a full list of the rappers that defined 2025

My personal favorite interview to date. A long, red clay road adoring conversation with Florida's Israel Jones god

An interview with CRUZIN, the NY upstart signed to MIKE's beloved grassroots operation, 10k Global

An ode to tumblr, the blog era, and online freedom

is that? Noooo! It can't be! More good videos?

Rapper Of The Month: Mike Shabb (October '25)

The UK savior fumbles what could have been an ascending moment. Some great moments, but not enough to hold up with his greater work

More great rap videos!

Jay Electronica; the man, the myth, the mostly wasted potential

LOOSE LINX VII: Osamason, Mobb Deep, BunnaB and more of the weird and wonderful

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Rapper(s) Of The Month: ZelooperZ & El Cousteau (Sept. '25)

LOOSE LINX VI: Rio Da Yung OG, Offset, Kelly Moonstone, Skepta, hella more come read allaboutitbrother

SUMMER. SWELTERING HEAT. HELLA TUNES

Top 3 joints we've ever done. Take a dive in the swampy hellscape of Florida and it's immense rap scene

Went to see Little Brother live on their farewell tour and made a dream come true

LOOSE LINX V: thoughts on albums from Tyler The Creator, Thr33, Killer Mike and many more!

Wrote about one of the most interesting underground rappers of the last few years, untiljapan, and the shadowy scene he represents

Rapper Of The Month: $ilkmoney (July-August '25)

rollout of the year? Probably. Album of the year? Not even close

In a guest piece for POW, take a stroll down memory lane with Lil Wayne's THA CARTER series. An immaculately crafted and self aware series of albums that's fluctuated from canonical to cannon fodder

RAPPER OF THE MONTH: Radamiz (June '25)

It's worth celebrating when the big dying media entity with eroding credibility actually does something right, because it only happens once ever 5 years. s/o XXL and all of this year's freshman selections

LOOSE LINX IV: breezy album reviews for McKinley Dixon, Bruiser Wolf, Pathfinders and more

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also, for POW, wrote about the greatest Boston rap export; Guru.

The New The Old The Dusty, an archive pull from my college days about Common, Navy Blue, Gil Scott-Heron and the idea of home

Modern Review: Florida Boy by Luh Tyler Wrote about the perfect Florida album for snowbirds and those who don't know what a jit is

for May's Rapper Of The Month, I wrote about billy woods, why artists use horror as a medium, and the realities of a better tomorrow 🔗

been inactive, gonna flood yall with all the posts from the last month. need help spreading the word on these great albums and artists, anything helps fr 🔗

wrote about a boring big (possibly the largest?) rapper and the gross things that make up modern rap fame

LOOSE LINX III: featuring reviews and rambles about NBA Youngboy, 1900Rugrat, YT, Radamiz and more 🔗

my bad been busy penning my POW debut

they were cookin

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wrote about Saba and all the tricks he's mastered on his newest album, FROM THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF SABA AND NO ID

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We All Want Gold: The Linx Mission Statement a personal piece about my path into hip-hop, finding myself, and the core focus of THE LINX today and going forward 🔗

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MODERN REVIEW: Playboi Carti - MUSIC A dive into the hellish years since WLR, the portal is opened into rage music, ATL history and AI

WAYNE !

Playboi Carti write up this week

this is why i don't fault people for not getting subjects involved (when it comes to broad coverage, bios are trickier). everyone wants to "control their own narrative" which ends in covering dirt/throwing other under the bus for money-credit/nothing happening at all.