Sam Smith: In The Lonely Hour
I first heard Disclosure‘s “Latch” playing at a party. A friend was showing me the single’s music video; the topic of conversation, I believe,…
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ScHoolboy Q: Oxymoron
In terms of a lead-in for Oxymoron, Los Angeles label Top Dawg Entertainment (Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock, etc.) could not have done much…
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Interview: Dillon Cooper
Dillon Cooper is young — he will turn 22 this year — yet his ambitious first project, Cozmik (2013), a 17 song mixtape, sampled “Mrs….
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Childish Gambino: Because the Internet
Childish Gambino‘s Because the Internet is not just an album; it is an all-encompassing social media experiment complete with instagrams of self-reflective notes written…
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R. Kelly: Black Panties
A timeline of R. Kelly‘s career would be about as chaotic and debaucherous as the music itself. There was the time when he became…
Read MorePostmodernism and Hip-Hop
The first time I watched Action Bronson perform was at the Hoxton in Toronto. As the crowd suffered through utterly unremarkable opening acts, they…
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Danny Brown: Old
We all try to prove our complexity all the time: in school, at the bar, on our Facebook pages, at work, at the bar….
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Drake: Nothing Was The Same
“What is happiness? It’s a moment before you need more happiness.” — Don Draper This may seem like a bit of a stretch, but…
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Wordsmith: The Blue Collar Recital
The concept album exists, or hypothetically could exist, in every music genre. The only requirement is that a universal theme or story be integrated…
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A$AP Ferg: Trap Lord
Trap Lord, the debut album from Harlem-born rapper A$AP Ferg, is the fashion designer-turned-MC’s first chance to do what he loves: create. Since giving…
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