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Fear & Loathing in Charm City :: Best of 2025
Top 5 for the year: Ennals x Infinity Knives, DJ Haram, Sasco x Sunmundi, billy woods and Gabe 'Nandez x Preservation.
Rap Dream Journal :: 2023-25
Other people's dreams are boring, but what about dreams with rappers in them?
Dope of the Month Club :: Augtember 2025
Ten joints for your autumnal pleasures. Wait, that sounds kinda erotic, I didn't mean it like that.
Saturday Night! The Philosophy :: on Schoolly D
For the 40th anniversary of "P.S.K.," some words on Schoolly D, my man Psycho Willie, the Apollonian and Dionysian.
Dope of the Month Club :: Majunely 2025
Moor Mother x SUMAC, Open Mike Eagle, Rhys Langston & 9 more.
Black Mirrors, Black Masks :: on billy woods’ ‘GOLLIWOG’
Refractions and reflections, doubling and splitting, x-ray eyes and iron masks.
Forget It, Jake. It's Marcberg.
Fifteen years since Mt. Marci emerged from the Earth's crust.
Dope of the Month Club :: Smarch 2025
Lousy Smarch newsletter.
No Cigar :: Four Overlooked ’90s Albums
Basehead, Divine Styler, The Goats, "Blowout Comb" and the diverse pocket of 1991-93 hip hop
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My first fight was me against five boroughs.
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the andre gee newsletter
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a closer listen
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