RT @Jacquiecharles: Armed gangs have torched Haiti’s famed Oloffson hotel | Miami Herald

The new issue of @WaxPoetics just dropped — my third as editor — with cover features on @MobbDeep + @LouieVegaNYC.

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Catch me on the latest episode of award-winning podcast "Twenty Thousand Hertz" breaking down the story of CAR AUDIO BASS with @DJMagicMike and host Dallas Taylor:

RT @Amy_Siskind: I just want to say that our media has completely failed us on properly covering Trump's cognitive decline, and the danger….

RT @PRNLegion: Rest in peace, Cat Glover. 🤍🕊

Praying the cease and desist letter is already in the mail.

RT @bobbycaldwell: We celebrated Bobby's heavenly birthday on August 15th. The cake.

I recently made the return to print journalism as the editor of the two latest issues of my favorite magazine @WaxPoetics. Here's the issue covers with Yellow Magic Orchestra + DJ Koco a.k.a. Shimokita, respectively, and a well-deserved back cover appearance from @Bahamadia.

Tuning into Mister Cee on "Throwback at Noon" the day after a particularly tragic loss was the most cathartic ritual hip-hop ever had.

Masicka freestyling on King Tubby's riddims with @Equiknoxx_Music in 2013: Via @deejaytheory @largeupdotcom.

RT @robpursey: Wanna know an early 90s rap album that barely gets a mention but absolutely bangs front to back? . This one…🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co….

Just learned that this '70s sitcom catchphrase is what Greg N-I-C-E (@darealGregNice) is referencing in his adlib at the start of "DWYCK" . I always thought it was a (rather inexplicable) reference to former NY @Giants head coach Ray Handley.

“Ewing’s doings”.

Years later, I got to return the favor by writing a cover story on @HarryAllen for another alt-weekly(ish) paper, the Long Island Press. Thanks, Harry!

The Village Voice showed there was a way to be a real, professional journalist + still participate authentically in subculture. For me, it was seeing @HarryAllen — the guy talking on Public Enemy records! —  getting bylines that suggested this might be a career worth exploring.

I have very mixed feelings about this story. On one hand, it was cool to write the first profile on such an enigmatic and talented figure, for the cover of an iconic magazine like URB. On the other, I feel that I was sort of conned by a musical snake-oil salesman.

Worth noting that Busta himself, and Hype Williams, recognized that beat as a "riddim" from jump. Busta's foil in the video is none other than legendary Jamaican dancer/choreographer Bruk Up

RIP Shamello. I hope his family is eating off this somehow.

I sat down with @DefJam artist @Stonebwoy to discuss the origins + growth of Ghana's booming dancehall scene. We discussed how dancehall came to be Ghana’s most popular music genre + the shared heritage that resonates between Ghanaians and Jamaicans: