My beloved Cool Calm Pete is back, and I took five months to write about it. It’s a strange and beautiful album that get’s better with every listen.
Tag Archives: Hip Hop
Lyrical Wax: 2014 Forest Hills Drive
Brilliant beautiful, reaching just beyond its grasp, it might be J. Cole’s defining album.
Cool Calm Pete – Heart
The final song of a criminally underrated Korean-American indie rapper.
Jay Electronica: A Written Testimony
An album with such a jarring disjuncture between its aesthetics and its politics I have to deal with them completely separately.
Little Brother: May the Lord Watch
Hip Hop is now old enough as a genre to have several generations of “back in my day” conservatives among its fans — people who believe that, by astounding coincidence, the genre produced its great work during the period which they first started listening, and all mutations since represent an unnecessary distortion of something that …
TGIF, AM I RIGHT
I’m sure you got it — Theme in Each song in yesterday’s playlist was a big iconic sample, usually used in a song that became far more famous than the original. For fun and completeness reasons: here’s the corresponding songs, arranged in the same order. Little shout outs due in particular to Montell Jordan, the …
Dancing to Architecture 