For @LAReviewofBooks, I reflected on the 50th anniversary of Ralph Bakshi’s “Coonskin” and our national obsession with cartoonish racial violence. Check it out: https://t.co/cKyGNCePEJ
the DMV is the most innovative, experimental hotbed for street rap in the country right now. that shit has taken over my life. for @pitchfork, i wrote about two collectives trying to break thru https://t.co/fGQTJmTeFm
very funny how the left has so much historical concepts — like “racial liberalism,” “neoliberal multiculturalism” — to describe the elite liberal capture of the grammar of social and political struggles. and everyone has just… adopted the right’s framing of the phenomenon lol
“What I knew that my critical elders didn’t…was that hip-hop mattered from the get-go. That once again, the African American working class…had created another vernacular, improvisational form of addressing their condition and the condition of the world.”
— Greg Tate
caught up w @flyinglotus over gyoza and edamame back in January and spoke to him about being inspired by the production of Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Madlib, J Dilla, Queen, DJ Quik, & more for our Producers series at @hearingthingsco https://t.co/Er1J3WD5dV
Scalawag was the first publication to take a chance on my journalism and criticism—they’re such wonderful stewards for their writers and they’re putting out stuff that no other outlets will. They deserve all the support 🙏🏾
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appreciate both @Al_Peeair and @andrejgee for speaking on the Allstar JR bullshit. more important now than ever to have trusted voices cutting through the noise to speak against the callousness we've been trained to approach Black violence/death w
we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through underground networks. where octopuses dream. where elephants return to the bones of their dead and stand over them in silence. where bees communicate through dance, showing each other where to fly. where flowers bloom...where crows remember human faces -especially those who were cruel to them - and pass that memory on to their young. where ants build entire cities. where cats purr at a frequency that can help heal bones. where forests, after fires, grow flowers first.