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Aug 14, 2016

Three Ways The Musical.ly App is Changing How We Interact With Music

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Matthew Reyes in The Earlier Stuff

Jul 24, 2016

Justin Timberlake, White Musicians, and Black Culture

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Matthew Reyes in The Earlier Stuff

Jun 16, 2016

Was Hip-Hop Really Better Back in the Day?

Vince Staples did the unthinkable recently: he called ’90s rap overrated. This is…

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Matthew Reyes in The Earlier Stuff

Jun 17, 2016

Top Five Lesser-Known Reasons Hall & Oates Are Wonderful

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Jul 31, 2016

Grease Soundtrack Power Rankings

Grease has to be one of the weirdest cultural staples that we have. For many of us, it was pushed on…

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Matthew Reyes in The Earlier Stuff

Sep 22, 2016

Vice City: How TDE is Changing Hip-Hop by Keeping Gangsta Rap Honest

Top Dawg is the first successful…

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Matthew Reyes in The Earlier Stuff

Oct 10, 2016

Despite What Everyone is Saying, Albums Are Alive as Ever

Everyone is freaking out about the death of…

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Matthew Reyes in The Earlier Stuff

Sep 6, 2016

Lil’ Yachty and Why Artists Need to Know Their History

They may not need to know everything about…

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Matthew Reyes in The Earlier Stuff

Aug 7, 2016

Everything’s Good: Chance The Rapper’s Difficult Journey to Happiness

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Aug 29, 2016

Why We Should Judge Music On if it Works, Not if We Like it

How Questlove gave us a better way to talk…

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