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The newest edition of The Abolitionist from Critical Resistance is dropping soon. They previewed my 9971 column about the retaliation I've experienced as an imprisoned organizer - including my recent parole denial. Check it out and become a subscriber! criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/i…

Whoever let that Lin-Manuel Miranda beat pack reach Lil Wayne will not see heaven

Big WSJ report: To hide the creation of Cold War military projects, the Pentagon fanned the flames of UFO conspiracy theories, "targeting its own citizens with disinformation"

Album of the day. Prince's jazz ambitions were quite obvious from the very start before Madhouse. But this 1987 side project with reedman Eric Leeds remains one of his most delightful forays into instrumental jazz-funk. Eight compositions — entitled "One," "Two," "Three," etc. —

The woozy, ethereal Daniel Lopatin remixes that summoned vaporwave from the ghosts of the 1980s pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

Mass culture has fragmented, and the old ways of dividing cultural/generational time don’t always work anymore. But to say that “there’s no 2020s culture” depends on a really narrow view of what “original” cultural production is

Y’all gotta stop immediately invoking MLK every time some shit pops off in the streets

Culture war is a manifestation of class war, not simply a distraction from it.

This summer is the 60th anniversary of Watts btw

Sly Stone 🕊️🕊️🕊️ youtu.be/lBt9Fb5B858

riots? tea?

I wrote this a while back for No Fences Review, on the release of the fantastic documentary SLY LIVES. Thought I'd re-share it now, in celebration and tribute to one of the true greats. RIP Sly Stone. Please share and subscribe. tinyurl.com/5fkx3byn

The long civil rights movement was so much messier—so much more strategically, locally, and racially diverse—than we give it credit for. We’d learn so much more from it if we treated it as a real historical moment instead of a talking point to be endlessly mythologized

A great read 👌🏾 “Contra popular belief, these users are not behaving like psychopaths so much as feeling an understandable reflex toward entropy.”

I interviewed probably the hardest working rapper I can think of, Boldy James, for the Guardian. Read here: theguardian.com/music/2025/jun…

Breaking News: Brian Wilson, founder of the Beach Boys, has died pitchfork.com/news/the-beach…

Will be relistening to every version of “Surf’s Up,” a masterpiece of progressive pop youtu.be/2LKCCdvFWD4

Questlove on Pet Sounds with some Detroit love. 😍

Column: Spoke to San Antonio’s Hoodlum about Texas rap, the surge in ICE raids in his hometown, and the difficulties in making music that reflects that reality pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-i…

SouljahFromTheNorth is one of the rawest Memphis rap archives on YouTube. No uploads in over a decade, but the influence is significant. I dug through hundreds of songs, picked 105 of my favorites, and put them into a carefully sequenced playlist.