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I interviewed probably the hardest working rapper I can think of, Boldy James, for the Guardian.
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thomas hobbs - freelance culture journalist
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thomas hobbs - freelance culture journalist
@thobbsjourno
bylines: bbc, guardian, dazed, wired, stereogum, pow, ft, vice, bandcamp, telegraph, sight&sound, billboard, complex, new statesman, mixmag, pitchfork, lwl etc
- madlib told me once he had thousands and thousands of vinyl in that house. stuff he brought back from every corner of the world. v sad that it's all goneLegendary producer Madlib and his family have lost their home to the California wildfires. "Decades of music and equipment" have been lost...
- Ed Sheeran should be put on trial at The Hague for inspiring multiple generations of white men to half sing, half rap about Stella and Nando's over ukuleles and acoustic guitars. Man did unspeakable societal damage
- This is the real life equivalent of when Derek Zoolander goes home to work with his dad in the mines. BrilliantAdrian Street, Welsh professional wrestler, pictured with his father, a coal miner (1974)
- When I was like 17, me and James Blake were in a call of duty 4 clan together. We spent about 10 hours a day for 1.5 years playing matches on Xbox live together, but one day he blocked us all because we kept teasing him about being posh and eating hummus. This is a true story
- No culture journalists attending the Timothee Chalamet lookalike contest while on psychedelics and then writing about it upsets me. Had it occurred 13 years ago, VICE would 100% have paid someone a few hundred dollars to do this
- when people say To Pimp A Butterfly sounds too white on Twitter, it's like saying John Coltrane or Miles Davis or James Brown or Jackie Wilson or The Isley Brothers or Funkadelic (all key influences) sound white. Just admit you're ignorant to jazz and funk and soul
- it sounds like MF DOOM's death was accelerated by poor hospital care and a lack of NHS staffing due to COVID-19. this is a very sad read; man deserved better. RIP to the legend
- I love how Fat Joe posts about supporting his autistic son. That type of visibility is important for a genre that's often so cruel. It's always powerful stuff; Joey Crack seems like one of the good ones from the 90s
- that billy woods line about pushing his son on the swing and feeling his mortality as a parent really blew my mind. i think about it a lot
- Shygirl deserves to be as big as Charli rn - Hope that happens. She started a lot of waves
- I hate it when British banking television adverts get spoken word poets to be the face of their brand and we are forced to listen to lines like: Family is birthday dinners, graduation parties and growing pains Family is a bank manager who helped me build my conservatory
- i hate we live in an era where a sauceless nerd debuting a turgid piece of music, by looking constipated and nodding along to it on their vlog, is considered an exciting way of breaking a new rap songDRAKE x LIL DURK DISCONTINUING WOKHARDT 🚨COMING SOON🚨 Premiered by Adin Ross 👀 x.com/mediaacct0313/…
- i saw someone quote the pitchfork maneskin review and try to make the case that it was an example of bullying. applying 'be kind' culture to arts criticism has to be the most clapped thing i've seen in a minute
