It’s distressing and heartbreaking to hear Killer Mike rap, “You so numb you enjoy the cops choke out a man like me/ Until finally my voice goes from the shriek to whisper, ‘I can’t breathe,’” recognizing that the track’s launch came hardly per week once the law enforcement killing of George Floyd.Ethnomusicologist Jargy tells of One … Read More


“Don’t phone it a comeback!” begins rap’s best-ever comeback. Soon after crossover pop good results, James Todd Smith returned to street-battling hip-hop pledging to “bash this defeat like a cranium,” and returning hearth from a Kool Moe Dee diss history.is often a deeply cinematic affair, its growth-bap blasted to shit by shifty cyberp… Read More