Humanize the Hype
By now, any stan or hater knows the half-joke, half-praise J. Cole receives for “going platinum with no features” on 2014 Forest Hills Drive. He’s almost guaranteed to do it again for his recent drop, KOD. But whatever. Everyone can admit he’s talented, so I’m not here to argue about whether the dude is corny or the rap messiah. I’m here
In 2012, my younger brother and I had never been to a concert before. Embarrassing, I know, because I was 18 years old and was about to show up on a college campus with a million “Brads” who would tell girls at parties about how “this one time I tripped acid at Gov. Ball and proposed
On October 23, 2016, the day before his birthday, Canadian artist Drake announced that he would be releasing not an album, but a playlist in 2017. Drake can call it whatever he wants, but it doesn’t change the fact that More Life, which premiered on March 18 through OVO Sound Radio, is a painfully average collection
There’s an old saying, “writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” In other words, what the heck is the point of interpreting one art form through another? Why write about music? Why not just sit and enjoy the music for what it is without muddying it with analysis? I’d argue that there are many
