next week, ill be co-hosting a fundraiser for journalists in palestine reporting on the genocide w/ arielle lana & TIMM thurs july 3rd from 7-10 @ mood ring there’ll be free tats & DJ sets from Alphonse, Annabel Ross, arielle, & Finals posh.vip/e/freedom-writ…

sicko mobb, skinny jeans, swag like hannah montana — interviewed the Fiesta Boy himself beezy spears for The FADER 💚 thefader.com/2025/06/26/lil…

I’m pro Jim jones just going around on random podcasts cutting wrestling promos at least it’s mostly for the point of bringing attention to his music and workout routines and not his new wine company or whatever

Column: Interviewed Maxo. We talked about the strangeness of your late twenties, hoops, Southern California, big boy’s neighborhood, authenticity, and his new album, which I really like. pitchfork.com/thepitch/maxo-…

this part from Alphonse x Maxo interview on navigating your late 20s hit hard

Saturday morning at the basketball court in south Brooklyn only place u hear arguments about if gunna is better than young thug all time and arguments about netanyahu at the same time

for LARB quarterly I wrote about the hot boys, BG, and the new world of rap music not after trial lareviewofbooks.org/article/feds-w…

Chelley and Cierra fake as hell

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idk about that Mobile got Rylo and nocap so there gotta be some cool ppl down there lmao

Reviewed this good mixtape from Baby Mel. He’s from Montgomery, Alabama and raps over like old Shawty Redd-ish beats and has a voice that sounds kinda like a pig squeal pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

Column: thinking about Pluto, YKNiece, BunnaB, Whim Whamiee, Young Dro, Yung LA’s Mohawk, Rich Kidz, Bunna Summa, Travis Porter pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-s…

stumbled across some generational album art while fact-checking this the other day

On the 200th episode of Reel Notes... Open OME video out now exclusively on Patreon. audio out everywhere else on Wednesday at 10AM

great face/off reference here by redman “put the headphones on your kid like castor Troy son” youtu.be/1n_L2wFOPCQ?si…

Reviewed Clipse’s Let God Sort Em Out, the reunion of Pusha, Malice, and Pharrell. Is good enough good enough? Is it actually “culturally inappropriate”? pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

those subway sandwiches were hitting in college lmao (i did need a cut tho)

Column: blogged about a bunch of rap songs I’ve been playing a lot this summer, from New Orleans bounce to Chicago bop to Michiganified Dominican rap pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-r…

“LGSEO wants to convince us of the importance and relevance of Clipse, like they’re not already fuckin Clipse. Maybe it’s that the brothers, savvy as ever, have picked up on the fact that mainstream rap albums are now split into two categories: The spectacles and everything else”