Listening to Kendrick’s New Album for 2 Weeks and It’s Still OverratedКендрик-кендрик-кендрівочкаEvery nigger is a star = Every caterpillar is a butterfly, isn’t it right, niggaz? Тримайте з порога наскрізну метафору останнього альбо…
Blank Space Presents: Our Top 10 Albums of 2015Curation and Words by Wade Ellis WilbyI’m not going to start this by saying it was a great year for music, because every year is a great year, if you know how to locate the goods. It’s important to remember that it hasn…
Reality Checks…Last week, I, like many of you, read Andreas Hale’s article in defense of Kendrick’s TPAB, and how hot-take writing undercuts the…
Kendrick Lamar“To Pimp a Butterfly”本作をピカソの「ゲルニカ」に例える声がある。人間の蛮行と悪を描いた黙示録であるかの作品と同様、『トゥ・ピンプ・ア・バタフライ』は告発的な作品だ。それはアフリカン・アメリカンたちがホワイト・ハウ…
For Every Good Kid in a Mad CityThis was a piece I had written in 2012 that got unpublished, so I thought that it would find a nice home here.For every good kid in a mad city, there are multiple streets to travel down. You can witness street life from your folks’ pad, scribble…
Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy performance answered a century-old questionThe 1929 novel that introduced “Blacker the Berry” to America
So, we were right: An Egocentric Take on The Golden Era vs. Modern Hip HopI started watching football…
