Mobb Deep’s Prodigy Was Hip-Hop’s Greatest Poet of Fear
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The Trouble with Building a Rock-Writing Canon
New Yorker 8 June 2017
Sgt. Pepper Came Out 50 Years Ago This Week. The Timing Was As Perfect As the Album.
Slate 24 May 2017
The Cavs and Warriors Are Undefeated, but the NBA Playoffs Belong to Isaiah Thomas
Slate 10 May 2017
Drake’s More Life Is Drake’s Best Album Because It Has the Least Drake
Slate 22 March 2017
Chuck Berry Didn’t Just Invent Rock and Roll. He Perfected It.
Slate 19 March 2017
Could Anti-Trump Americans Make YG’s “FDT (F— Donald Trump)” the No. 1 Song in the Country?
Slate 22 February 2017
How and Why to Root for the New England Patriots in the Age of Trump
Slate 3 February 2017
My Two Favorite Albums of the Year Came From the Same City
Slate 29 December 2016
Wonder Week Is a Toast to StevieÐand All the Artists Who Inspire Us
Slate 18 December 2016
The Greatest Creative Run in the History of Popular Music
Slate 18 December 2016
This New Doc About the Invention That Changed Music Is a Must-Watch for Music Nerds
Slate 16 December 2016
On A Tribe Called Quest’s First Album in 18 Years, Its Music Is, Amazingly, as Timely as Ever
Slate 14 November 2016
Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant Are the Brangelina of the NBA
Slate 7 November 2016
Danny Brown’s New Album Is One of the Best of the YearÑand One of the Most Frightening
Slate 7 October 2016
How the Rolling Stones, a Band Obsessed With Black Musicians, Helped Make Rock a White Genre
Slate 6 October 2016
What Luke Cage Takes From the Blaxploitation Genre
Slate 3 October 2016
The New De La Soul Album Is Exactly What You Expected: I.E., Not at All What You Expected
Slate 30 August 2016
I Love the Weirdo Misfits of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Basketball Team
Slate 19 August 2016
How The Get Down Botches Hip-Hop History
Slate 17 August 2016