A Firsthand Experience of Lil B’s Grace
The BasedGod got jumped at the Rolling Loud festival by A Boogie and his crew this past weekend, and he came out of the...
Hyun Jin-young and Black America’s Stake in K-pop
Once upon a time (the 1980s), A man from a faraway place came to America—no, not Prince Akeem, goofy—to study engineering....
Anime and XXXTentacion Songs Pair Beautifully
The popularity of Anime among Black and African youth isn't well-documented, but people know it's there. Even if it's mostly with mainstream Animes like...
Girl, Resigned: How Lorde’s Solar Power Helps Me Let My Hair — and Guard...
I was looking forward to disliking Solar Power. Hating it, even.
When the title track of Ella Yelich-O'Connor’s third...
Cut Straight To The Heart: On Mitski’s “Working for the Knife” and Leaving My...
It’s being confronted with a world that doesn’t seem to recognize your humanity, and seeing no way out of it- Mitski on...
Nicki Minaj’s Outrage is a Bad Look, But Valid
It doesn't take much for the jokes to fly on Twitter. And when someone as big as Nicki Minaj starts ranting and naming names,...
“180” S1 E3 – Are White People Guests in Hip-Hop?
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Album-Equivalent Units are not “Cheating”
Music streaming records get broken every full moon these days, which makes the novelty of album-equivalent units (AEUs) hard to judge. And unless you...
Vanilla Ice, Chinese Mississippians, and Hip-Hop
As described in The Big Payback, an extremely thorough chronicle of the hip-hop industry, Tommy Quon was a Chinese-American from Greenville, Mississippi. He owned...
The influence of K-pop in fashion
Very excited to host this piece on K-pop's global fashion influence written by Colombian blogger and college student Guillermo Forero. This piece was originally...