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Eric Beignet

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Writer, editor, producer, strategist// @wRapCaveat curator: //Present: 😉 //Past: Afropunk, Pitchfork (Created Levels + The Ones)

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Eric Beignet

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On 9/8 @djtara & I are celebrating one of the greatest musicians of the hip-hop generation, Kamal Fareed @QtipTheAbstract If you’re a fan of ATCQ, Mobb Deep, Solange, Janet Jackson, Danny Brown, Dilla, Nas, or Busta, then this party is for YOU!!! tix:

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1 year

In case you forgot Disney owns ABC.

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1 year

Strike by Hollywood actors, writers causing collateral damage to small businesses in SoCal

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3 years

This was my favorite lie ever on the internet though

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1 year

we need to radicalize Kai Cenat

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Dude if one twitch streamer can basically foment a rebellion against the NYPD maybe this revolution stuff will be easier than any of us thought

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2 years

I found the worst tweet

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2 years

Still Tippin’ would be better if you replace Paul Wall wit Eminem

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1 year

the best reason to read this book is so that you can identify the people who live by this bullshit when you come across them

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1 year

The 48 Laws of Power is a modern classic. Not a day passed where I hadn't thought about the ammoral relevations backed by historical examples Some highlights 👇👇👇

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2 years

Kith in open warfare with ALD for the aged-out-of-streetwear-hip-hop-adjacent-white-dad-with-disposable income market

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6 years

What if this year’s Freshman list was: Rico Nasty Tierra Whack Megan Thee Stallion Bbymutha Kash Doll Dreezy Queen Key Yung Baby Tate Kari Faux

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2 years

@queersocialism why act like your hands are cuffed when they’re not?

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5 years

need more black people (who grew up around other black people) in media

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@hw4vr what we do is called design. it’s not limited to being called “streetwear”. design-is-design. the moral of the story is beware of whatever box your labeled as. challenge it. defy it. do not be defined by it✨

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2 years

I wish more of my brothers and sisters understood that Malcolm X progressed PAST the Nation of Islam in his evolution

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4 years

You can be a victim of one type of oppression and the agent of another at the same time. A thing to grapple with and accept. Let’s get uncomfortable.

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5 years

a toothbrush. they rebranded the toothbrush.

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A new hair tool will forever change how you lay your baby hairs:

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2 years

Fuck with people that consider and include you. That’s the difference between community behavior and transactional/opportunist behavior.

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20 days

Akon’s scamming brother calls Tyler “old” for criticizing his white meal ticket

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CEO of BuVision, Bu Thiam, who signed Ian, calls out Tyler, The Creator after he allegedly dissed Ian in a recent interview

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5 years

Mercury definitely in retro J’s

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4 years

nah @desusnice got a beautiful family. This is dope.

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hi, this is the most precious video on the internet, thanks bye.

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3 years

@dylanali_ @DJOHSOxo Ain’t no Harlem Black giiiiiiiirl!

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1 year

I’ve been saying Travis Scott is highly stylized but ultimately vapid and devoid of substance for YEARS. Glad everyone’s caught up.

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4 years

Nas: I’m goin’ ULTRA BLACK! Also Nas:

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5 years

Skinny jeans? We off that!

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4 years

Elijah, an 11-year-old Black boy, just published his first zine and it’s one of the most interesting indie publications out. He interviewed the lead singer of Devo, gives his impressions of Jacob Lawrence’s artwork and catches up with Jack from J*Davey.

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Things that interest me, that might interest you.

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5 years

A lot of great album covers this year but this one matched the title so perfectly (and hilariously)

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4 years

Y’all say “riots” I say “uprising”

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1 year

hip-hop is the only genre where young artists get cool points for not knowing shit and that’s ass backwards given the fact hip-hop is constantly building on and borrowing from older versions of itself

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JEHOVAH’S FLYEST WITNESS©

1 year

why don’t rappers feel the need to actually learn about music history? how is that your craft yet you don’t even study those before you?

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19 days

My thing about these accounts is all they do is make declarations with no sources cited and we just react like it’s facts

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Snoop Dogg has officially made $9,000,000 from promoting the Paris Olympics in 17 days 💶 He also increased the viewership by %79 📈

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2 years

One day we gotta talk about the elite capture of radical Black feminism and how the “radical”part was removed in favor of self-promotion, careerism, and vibes.

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5 years

random, but kid sister was ahead of her time

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5 years

this album was so wack

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5 years

🗓 1 Year Ago: Ye in Wyoming

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4 years

“‘Lockdown’ is a carceral term, it comes from the experience of people in PRISON. . . we [who are quarantining] are not experiencing the same thing” — Angela Davis

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6 years

Problem with rap being popular is that now everybody thinks they’re an expert on rap.

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4 years

Listen to Big Pun and listen for the inhales. Changes the whole experience.

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Eric Beignet

2 years

Questlove said a new Roots album is dropping in 2023 and that the first single, “Misunderstood” features Erykah Badu and Tierra Whack. Funk Flex is getting the premiere. Kinda a big deal!

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6 years

Kanye has never been less cool.

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4 years

In 2019 Maxo put out the best album on Def Jam in 5 or 6 years and they ain’t know what to do with it.

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4 years

People who never seen Goodfellas...

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28 days

Spooky Black flashback lol

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Amílcar Cariño Charlemagne 🇵🇷

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28 days

This is crazy.

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5 years

When you travel you realize that streetwear—and especially designer streetwear—is dead because it’s the official uniform of corny people with money.

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6 years

Y’all really cool with Adam22 making fun of a Cuban Doll for getting beat by Tadoe? Y’all gonna have your artists appear on his show for press runs and give him sponsorship money?

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3 years

lol the column I used to do with Ye when I was a cub reporter and he was just heating up

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‘Kanye West’s Fashion Beatdowns’ — Kanye West rates Diddy, Pharrell, Justin Timberlake & André 3000’s style for the October/November Issue of Complex Magazine (2003) “Pharrell is the coolest dresser of the new millennium.” — Kanye West

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1 year

niggas will talk about demons before capitalism or anti-blackness

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The demonic influence is getting more and more blatant in this thing. The gradualism was numbing, now it’s just out loud.

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2 years

“The way white women feel about Fiona Apple is the way I feel about Steve Harvey” — @zackfox

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1 year

Music journalists: We need to have conversation about the ethics of reporting on/writing about music that uses samples—especially when it’s by independent artists. We should not be in the business of snitching or making it easy for artists to get sued or C&Ded.

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5 years

wait a minute...

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6 years

s/o @denzelcurry for being the rapper to bring RATM appreciation to this generation

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3 years

Black people

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3 years

Westside Gunn makin a way for A LOT of artists. You gotta respect that.

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4 years

You can’t “snitch” on someone who is not your accomplice who SHOT YOU.

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2 years

Lol I remember when Dave Chappelle hosted SNL and was like, “Trump, if you give us a chance, we’ll give you a chance” 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

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2 years

EXCLUSIVE: 'SNL' staff writers boycott over Dave Chappelle's hosting gig

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4 years

There’s no mysterious masked Mach Hommy w/o DOOM as the precursor. No Bandana or Pinata without Madvillain, no Earl or Tyler or any of the countless other producers emcees he inspired. Rest in Power DOOM.

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Eric Beignet

3 years

Straight from the comedic mind of Aaron McGruder

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3 years

107-year old Viola Fletcher wearing her first-ever pair of Air Jordans. Mother Fletcher is the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. [📸: silhouettetulsa/IG]

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1 year

New York is quickly becoming Rich Ppl City and rich people have no style or taste or worthwhile culture

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what's the craziest dickriding y'all ever seen?

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5 years

Nipsey’s death got like every brother I know at least a little depressed

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1 year

@rjcc He’s high design, shallow depth. He’s a KAWS exhibit

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1 year

I feel like this got buried

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Lil Uzi Vert Cops Plea Deal in Assault Case, Sentenced to Probation

Lil Uzi Vert cops plea deal in assault case, avoids jail time.

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Eric Beignet

5 years

Some news:

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1 year

Every rapper doesn’t deserve a Madlib beat🤫

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2 years

Noah observes the fray from a distance as its own position becomes more and more precarious

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2 years

Old enough to remember that Black Eyed Peas changed the song “Let’s Get Retarded” to “Let’s Get It Started” with good reason

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5 years

was waiting for folks to discover this...

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𓊆ྀིmuñeco𓊇ྀི

5 years

So.... Dr. L*ke produced all of Doja’s new music under a pseudonym??????!

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I created “The Ones” as a concept; a daily new hip-hop song of the day write up at a time when blogs were dead but there was a deluge of new and noteworthy rap music. The songs were selected by immersed fans (Al + me) and not any cultural tourists.

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6 years

Lol if you’ve ever been in a recording studio while artists are working you know it’s boring as shit.

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3 years

@itspushpush a whole buck-a-rooni!

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Eric Beignet

4 years

I’ve always found it interesting how some people miss all the street shit DOOM is referring to on Operation: Doomsday in the haste to write him off as strictly “backpack.” Some people hear, other people listen. Context is always important.

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4 years

Oh shit, just remember I got fired from Complex way back in the day for sending an email to Marc Ecko about how the white male EIC at the time was racist and didn’t respect hip-hop. Lolz

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Eric Beignet

1 month

If you invite a person who doesn’t respect you into your space and they then proceed to disrespect you the blame lies with YOU

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Eric Beignet

5 years

stop conflating fame with qualification and expertise or authority

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Eric Beignet

5 years

Yeah, so Terrance Nance told us what to expect from ‘The Joker’ before the movie was even announced:

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5 years

gotta stop calling women “bro” when we start vibing about a topic passionately

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Eric Beignet

5 years

I'm the Associate Producer and Interviewer of this concert film/mini-doc. It's a good watch if you're into Kamasi's music, jazz, and culture within context.

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Kamasi Washington

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@ApolloTheater @amazonmusic @PrimeVideo

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Eric Beignet

2 years

While you sit around wondering if it's too late to do something, it just gets later and later. Time only moves in one direction.

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Eric Beignet

1 year

I know we’re not supposed to give Jack any credit (🙄) but I do give him props for dealing with a subject that too many (male) rappers would never touch. Whether you like or dislike the execution, I’m glad someone made a song like this.

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Jack Harlow just released the music video for ‘Gang Gang Gang’ 🎬 How’s it looking? 🤔

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1 year

I love that Cleo Sol and SAULT have so many fans now. One of the few word-of-mouth success stories I can think if in the last few years

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Eric Beignet

5 years

Drake gotta do a posse cut with himself doing all his different accents

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Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴

5 years

Drake with the innit bars

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1 year

That rapper is not a deep thinker. He equates art with provocation (and self-promotion) and that’s where it ends. He has nothing profound or substantial to say beyond the incitement itself. He just wants the attention. He’ll lash out and double down when criticized. Man-child.

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8 years

dead prez was pretty much right about everything

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1 year

we are witnessing the Tame Impala-fication of everything

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Eric Beignet

4 years

Ladies, who are your fave MEN-cees?

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4 years

Fellas, who’s your favorite female rapper?

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3 years

you like @Alchemist productions? Me too. Throw it on shuffle.

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3 years

“Free-thinkers” are in fact puppets 99% of the time

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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith.

4 years

Name a rap album that isn't considered a classic, but kinda is.

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Eric Beignet

3 years

I wish more ppl aspired to be good human beings rather than rich or wealthy

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4 years

Telling my kids this was Spooky Black

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Many culture vultures, colonizers, and opportunists in hip-hop get over by positioning themselves as “the youth” or “voice of the youth” I hope you see it.

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5 years

NY rappers—no matter the sub-genre— be RAPPIN

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DJBooth

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Friends, we'd like to present: @POPSMOKE10 rapping his ASS off. (via @Power106LA )

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Eric Beignet

3 years

Anti-Blackness and anti-Semitism are rooted in the fiction of white supremacy. S/o to those who understood this throughout history.

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Ariaa ®

3 years

This is genius Albert Einstein who refused to speak at white colleges and at the end of his life spoke exclusively at black universities "The separation of races is not a disease of colored people but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."

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For those who don’t know, @WALASIA fka Miranda Jane was an editor at Stress magazine, Mass Appeal, and a founding editor at Complex. She is THE person who introduced Madlib and DOOM and planted the seed for the idea of Madvillainy (she’s the female voice on “Fancy Clown”)

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stephen hicks

1 year

we must keep respect on walasia shabazz’s name.

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Eric Beignet

4 years

ok I’m excited for this

@denzelcurry

Denzel Curry

4 years

BALD! REMIX w/ JPEGMAFIA OUT NOW!!!

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2 years

DaBaby really coulda been the current day Ludacris but…

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4 years

The best hip-hop beats use samples

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3 years

We say “vibes” today ‘cause jazz musicians said it decades ago.

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I the Five Boroughs went to war which one would win?

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3 years

Black male death is so normalized that it is a cultural product and commodity

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2 years

If you are are a white arbiter of what’s good in hip-hop, what’s your take on anti-Blackness and how does it inform your work? What self-reflection have you done? Let us know. Way more interesting than your “best albums” takes.

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Eric Beignet

4 years

The L.A Beat scene, so-called lo-fi hip-hop, “experimental” rap, the sample-based loop-heavy rap of today can be traced back to the influence of this album

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Madlib

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The Unseen 6/13/2000

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Eric Beignet

2 years

You ever just give up on a day and be like “I’ma just wake up early tomorrow”?

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Eric Beignet

4 years

why say “trope” when you really mean “cliché” or “stereotype?”

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