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the great billy woods

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thanks so much y’all, still doesn’t feel real 🥲🙏🏾🔕 can’t wait to get started

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. @Pitchfork Names Mano Sundaresan as New Head of Editorial Content: Exclusive

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lmao how did i never know this

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For @nprmusic I talked to PinkPantheress about a lot of stuff including, yes, those samples.

PinkPantheress reimagines garage music for a new generation

The internet's buzziest new artist talks creating her new mixtape to hell with it, sample culture, and nostalgia

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virgil abloh talking about the yeezus CD design in a 2017 lecture at columbia:

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graduating from imposter syndrome to the feeling that nobody’s fully qualified for anything we’re all just vibing doing shit 🤝

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Interviewed one of the best rappers right now @VEEZE4Eva for NPR

Veeze is just like us — except he's one of the best rappers alive

For years, the relatable Michigan rapper's lore was missing a crucial component: an album. In the lead up to its release, he talked leak culture, becoming a talk-show host and his idea of taste.

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2 years

little life update: I recently started as a producer on NPR's @LouderThanARiot ✌️🏾

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2 years

gonna start writing new idioms. you're just gonna have to figure out what I mean when I say them

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3 years

yachty doing michigan rap is not some grand scheme to stay relevant lol he makes hits every year

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told makonnen’s story with @rodneyology for louder than a riot. one of atlanta’s true originals, who queered the trap and constantly navigated hip-hop’s rigid categories of masculinity. out now wherever you get podcasts 🫡

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iLoveMakonnen’s “Tuesday” was inescapable back in 2014. Especially after Drake hopped on the remix and signed him to OVO. But soon, we would see how his queerness triggered hip-hop’s worst behavior. This is Rule No. 6: Real N*ggas Go Hard (Pause, No Homo)

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This morning I was laid off by NPR along with the majority of this amazing team. We just launched our new season last week after reporting/producing it for over a year. Sending all the love to @gabbybulgarelli @samjleeds @sorayashock y'all are superstars and they did us dirty.

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🧵Louder Than A Riot has been cancelled by NPR. Our producers and editor have been laid off, although NPR would like everyone to stay on until June to finish publishing the show. We are taking some time to process what this looks like for our staff. 1/4

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For pitchfork I reviewed the new Ken Carson album, which feels like a level up in basically every way. thinking about old Atlanta music, underground shows, the Opium Aesthetic™ and more.

Ken Carson: A Great Chaos

Read Mano Sundaresan’s review of the album.

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3 years

LETS GOO

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GKMC changed rap fans and created new ones. one of the most formative albums of my generation. happy 5th anniversary to a classic.

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@moshpxt Babytron voice

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Based on Black Ken snippets & Lil B's music influencing rap waves 3-4 years after it drops, rap in 2020 is gonna sound like Kurtis Blow

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3 years

808s best kanye album hope u all grew up and learned

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3 years

for pitchfork I reviewed Frailty, which, like every @dltzk record, asks what digicore can be.

Jane Remover: Frailty

Read Mano Sundaresan’s review of the album.

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4 years

Yachty staying mindful of the NBA's small ball revolution >>

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5 months

thank you @lizpelly for inviting me to her music journalism class at NYU to talk about blogs and zines and such! we recorded our whole conversation, I’ll post it on @nobellsblog soon.

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for @nprmusic I interviewed @brakence , an artist from ohio who’s been fracturing and reassembling pop in very cool ways.

The extremely online psychedelia of brakence

Already a quiet influence on the hyperpop scene, fame, relationships, stimulants and screens collide in brakence's "realer-than-real" sound.

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2 months

woke up at 4:30am caught a flight back from chicago and soon heading to the office for my first day at pitchfork 🤓🎥⛽️⏩ #music

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3 years

the best music interviews will always be artists nerding out about other artists

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3 years

thanks so much NTS 😭 No Bells radio show coming soon

NTS Radio

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3 years

Meet the new residents joining NTS in 2022… 🧵

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2 years

for pitchfork I hung out with @clubpenquinn in western georgia and learned a little about her process of self-discovery these last couple years.

Quinn Is Too Real For the Internet

In the early pandemic, the 17-year-old rapper/producer went viral for her spin on hyperpop; now, her new self-titled album looks for a more present life.

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today’s my last day at @npratc . over the last two years I learned to produce radio, exploring a form of journalism that revealed new possibilities by the day. grateful to the team for their camaraderie and mentorship 🙏🏾

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thoughts on VULTURES 1

At Ye's listening events, true believers rally around a chaotic idol

Kanye West has made stumbling rollouts, toxic comments and blown deals his calling card. But at the launch for his new album Vultures 1, it's clear there's one place where his magnetism hasn't faded.

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I produced this week’s episode of @LouderThanARiot about iLoveMakonnen. here are this week’s Liner Notes 🫡 📝 🧵 /1

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grandpa would've turned 102 today 🙏🏾 this is a dam he designed in Tamil Nadu.

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babyface ray music is so damn motivational

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3 years

Wrote about Ka, who’s looking deeper into himself and the future and making the best music of his career.

Ka: A Martyr’s Reward

Read Mano Sundaresan’s review of the album.

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3 years

thought 'Donda' was emblematic of a lot of the issues plaguing Kanye's recent music

From A Small House In a Big Stadium, Kanye Comes Up Empty-Handed

After a personally eventful year, the artist undertook another – and perhaps his most – ambitious, sprawling introduction of a new album. The results seem to be inversely proportional.

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2 years

can't believe this gen is stuck with Jack Harlow

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Yall didn’t appreciate RiFF RAFF enough while he was here.

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one of the best rap albums in recent memory

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trap queen was such a moment omfg why aren’t men just fun with rap anymore

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rip descartes you would’ve loved rx papi

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10 Years Later: How Jack Harlow's 'Come Home the Kids Miss You' Helped Me Find My Own Home

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3 years

Wish music journalists had more accessible pathways to professional mentorship

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For The Face I wrote a profile of @bktherula one of the great new Atlanta rappers this decade

Bktherula is in another dimension

She is one of the most exhilarating artists in rap. She’s also a quantum physics student who operates in a place she calls Level 5. The 21-year-old beams us up to the surreal philosophy behind her...

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3 years

dude how is every azealia banks interview such a classic

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Dirt

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Oops! All worst songs.

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2 years

lotta old white philosophers were wrong but they went hard as fuck. like imagine thinking u proved god’s existence in 3 steps then publishing that. no one does stuff like that anymore

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3 years

nothing like shoreline mafia's first tape

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2 years

fav things I did this yr: quinn profile (hbd) NTS residency yeat essay+video convo w joseph patel rx papi profile+first show out

Quinn Is Too Real For the Internet

In the early pandemic, the 17-year-old rapper/producer went viral for her spin on hyperpop; now, her new self-titled album looks for a more present life.

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2 years

Still in shock that the first No Bells event is with my favorite rapper. See you there 🫡

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2 years

We’re throwing Rx Papi’s first show out. Tickets here:

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4 years

Reviewed the new @rxpapii record for pitchfork

Rx Papi: 100 Miles and Walk’in

The Bronx rapper pulls you into his orbit with dark humor and trademark absurdity on his latest project, more focused than any of his previous work.

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I worked on a story about @MCShaRock , the first female MC, and the blueprint for rap she helped create, despite being tokenized and ostracized in the culture’s early years. It’s Episode 2 of @LouderThanARiot and it’s out now.

Baby girl, you're only funky as your last cut: MC Sha-Rock : Louder Than A Riot

Decades before hip-hop's current renaissance of women rappers, there was MC Sha-Rock. Despite her influence on future generations, her contribution to the craft of hip-hop is not widely known. In...

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24 today feeling grateful 🙏🏾

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3 years

✍️✍️✍️ first BNM!

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Ka's ( @BrownsvilleKa ) A Martyr’s Reward is named Best New Music

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Bereal’s gotta be the most cooked successful app I’ve ever seen this thing has dorm room coding project energy

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wrote about Yeat for pitchfork’s best songs of 2021. that sentence would’ve sounded crazy back in January.

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This is coooool we just relaunched Heat Check at @nprmusic to cover new rap and R&B releases on a weekly basis. I wrote abt NBA Youngboy, jaydes and OT7Quanny in this week’s installment.

Heat Check Roundup: Stormzy, GloRilla and Cardi B, SiR and more

This week's Heat Check playlist gathers artists from across the spectrum: a grime king retaking his throne, Cardi B signal boosting the summer's most exciting newcomer, risers and covert stars.

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thoughts on the new number 1 song in america

Who Put Ye at the Top of the ‘Hot 100’ Again?

How the rapper found chart success despite a litany of hateful rhetoric.

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2 years

Music journalism needs more multi-writer reported pieces imo. scenes are so detailed + evolve so fast these days, it’s asking way too much of a single writer to document all of that for $400 or whatever

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For @WBUR I profiled Van Buren Records, one of the most exciting rap groups out of MA in years.

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2 years

no music, no DJ

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beyond innovating on auto-tune T-Pain snuck some really interesting arranging and chord progressions into hit records. if you sit down and learn Buy U A Drank on the piano it sounds unreal

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still getting used to walking to work every morning thinking about, like, how we should score the new ice spice record and boom there are the tourists remembering 9/11

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Some News

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We’re making a print magazine focused on underground music. Pitches for the first edition are due Feb 7. 🔕

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3 years

Really like quinn's debut album, makes me think about gaze and intimacy and how artists navigate online music spaces. My review:

quinn: drive-by lullabies

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2 years

started saluting ppl in real life cuz of that damn emoji

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Reviewed the new Makonnen album for @pitchfork

iLoveMakonnen: My Parade

Read Mano Sundaresan’s review of the album.

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wrote about this lil yachty/ian track lmao

Lil Yachty / ian: “Hate Me”

It’s Lil Yachty vs. the preppy white rapper everyone loves to hate.

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rod wave is adele for boys

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Real Mass lore. Mill Pond

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heart still racing from ln! thank u all for coming to our second ever music writer reading. thanks to our readers @Al_Peeair @Mankaprr @kieranpressreyn . will share some clips on @nobellsblog later. much love to @adlankj for covering over at hellgate 🫡

A Glimpse of Music Journalism's Future - Hell Gate

Last week, it seemed like the industry was down for the count. After a night at a sold out reading hosted by the blog No Bells, I'm not so sure. Plus, more links for your Friday.

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I think Goodreads being cooked as hell is part of what makes it fun

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It’s my birthday lol

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Over the last year, we've received more attention than we ever expected covering various music scenes and subcultures. We need your help to take the next step as a publication.

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2 months

POW FOREVER 🙏🏾

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The POW Rap Up columnist to media stardom pipeline is now complete. Congrats @manosundaresan

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will always appreciate that p4k let me cover the rap/hyperpop/edm being made in online circles during the pandemic. I semi-cringe at some of the writing now but I was fr unable to get these pitches picked up by any other publication of merit.

Jane Remover: Teen Week

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lmao

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pinkpantheress early era was the weeknd tumblr mixtape run for gen z

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cool!

Plugg music - Wikipedia

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very delayed 2023 recap: helped produce the best podcast @LouderThanARiot managed/edited nearly doubled our readership publishing cool shit interviewed some favs: veeze/brakence/bk

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reviewed this pretty cool EP by Georgia rapper che for pitchfork. some crazy wall-of-sound moments here with his producer Natecxo that push the glo beats in vogue rn in a new direction.

che: Crueger EP

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Talked to @CousinStizz about weed, Jayson Tatum, and his new mixtape One Night Only for @Passionweiss

“I Got a Long Way to go Before I’m the Savior of Anything”: An Interview with Cousin Stizz

Mano Sundaresan talks to Cousin Stizz about weed, Jayson Tatum, and his forthcoming mixtape, ‘One Night Only.’

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Somebody send him @nobellsblog Milwaukee rap list

NBACentral

@TheDunkCentral

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Damian Lillard admits that life in Milwaukee is 'lonely' and he doesn't 'have much of a life.' “Go to practice, go home, watch boxing, play video games. Man, I type in [boxing website] FightHype on YouTube 100 times and be praying for something new to be on there. Seriously, I

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I profiled @fax_gang for Bandcamp. They're making some of the most captivating online music right now.

Meet Fax Gang, the Discord Server-Turned Music Collective Built Around “Bitcrushing”

“We're trying to build soundscapes and experiences that are really tailored to the bitcrushed sound and writing with that in mind,” says the group's PK Shellboy.

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long live the ruler

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my piano teacher of over a decade, and friend for much longer, passed away this morning. I need to say more but for now, hope you have found peace Gina 🕊️

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If any labels, blogs, agencies, brands etc are curious about ad space in Issue 1 of No Bells (an underground rap magazine) holler at me 🫡

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2 years

all my homies philosophers!!

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it's 2020. soundcloud is dead. beatsbysaif runs twitter rap & has a million followers. beatsbysaif replies to his own tweets with snippets.

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an essay about how the remaining kanye believers are simply clinging onto memories (and jpegs) of the TLOP listening party

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mike dean's playing like he just showed up to the guitar center after 10 blunts amazing stuff

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who are you people!!!

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passion of the weiss

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@timmhotep

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What’s the most prestigious/respected hip-hop publication around now?

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No bells is an industry plant fs

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2 Chainz said "Perpendicular, ignorant crossed with articulate /Southside using Ben Franklin for benefits" on a Statik Selektah beat, unreal

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at the james blake show lot of white men that look like james blake

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One of my favorite episodes of the season, a massive reporting effort. @gabbybulgarelli @samjleeds @Sid_Madden @rodneyology @sorayashock Ep 3 of Louder out now

Beauty is in the eye of the male gaze: DreamDoll, Doechii and Baby Tate : Louder Than A Riot

The male gaze looms over everything, but hip-hop is its favorite entertainment. Those under its watchful eye feel objectified or shamed if they don't give it what it wants to see. In this episode, we...

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We Actually Brought The Wock To Poland. You Won't Believe What Happened.

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