The best emcees never fall off, but that doesn’t mean they stay hot forever — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. The photo shoot was a wrap. The interview had concluded an hour earlier. Nas was now off the clock, but here he was, deep in the bowels of Hollywood’s Westlake Studios…

He represented the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party. Then the party changed. — On November 10, 2016, two days after Donald Trump was elected president, Howard Dean declared his candidacy for the chair of the Democratic National Committee. “Fuck off, lobbyist,” came one reply on Twitter. The six-term former governor of Vermont appeared tailored for a return to the DNC and the post…

An oral history of Woodstock ’94, the funnest Woodstock of all. (Read on if you don’t believe us, and also if you do.) — On the morning of the biggest concert of their career, Nine Inch Nails woke up on their tour bus backstage at Woodstock ’94 to the sounds of bullhorns and shouting firemen. “Don’t touch anything! Don’t open the doors!” A downed power line had landed on the bus. “They weren’t saying…