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 gone
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
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
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 song
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