Mario Judah Making His Own “Whole Lotta Red” Challenges Fans and Artists
If I had one of music's most unique sounds and spent 2+ years building up to my biggest album yet just to...
Phoebe Bridgers’ ‘Punisher’ Soundtracks the End of the World and It Feels Fine, Sort...
There's always something amusing about how your relationship with a record can evolve with the passing of time. I remember not liking...
Where did Future’s new hype come from?
He's always had hits. He's always been an astronaut. He's always been poured up.
Even back when he was A1's freshest face and had Rocko...
A Brief History of Drill Music, Globally
The eruption of Chief Keef and Chicago’s drill movement in 2012 was instant rap lore. However, no one could imagine this hyper-real,...
What I Love About Incorrect BTS Quotes and the ARMY
Perhaps I don't know shit about boy bands and boy band fan culture. But the BTS Army just hits different. Stumbling upon incorrect BTS...
Roach Nigga And Hood Stereotypes on Twitter
Social media parody accounts are nothing new, but they're exceptionally wild on Twitter.
Exhibit A: @roach_nigga
One popular brand of parody account are the type that...
‘Dope’: Blackness, Pop Culture, and Growing Up in 2015
Revolving around a circus of coinciding storylines and Malcolm's issues of self-understanding, Dope serves as a humorous representation of popular youth culture in 2015...
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...
Cam’ron and Tory Lanez Rate Rich Chigga
Not too long ago, Nathan Slavik of DJBooth published an article criticizing Rich Chigga's use of the word 'nigga' in the viral song 'Dat Stick'. He...
Mean Girls: An Asian American Retrospective
Mean Girls used to be one of my favorite movies. The plot was full of laugh-out-loud moments and characters who stretched the imagination, but...