Nas: half man, half amazing. Incidentally, DJ Premier who produced this track and arguably presents these same proportions of man and amazing, was in town last night, playing a DJ set at Club Coda. You’ll never guess who was stuck at her house doing homework instead.
One constant in my life, besides a bottomless love for peanut butter and all things coconut, is this uninerrupted flow of odd ideas that assault my brain and lead me to do very strange things. For example. Last spring, I was suddenly possessed with the idea of joining a Turkish choir. I wasn’t conversing in [...]
I was recently reminded of a pleasant time, in the not-so distant past, when liking Kanye West’s music didn’t feel like such an effort. I do get the point that hip-hop must be liberated from stylistic constraints and set free if it is to avoid going the way dodos and Tacos-flavoured Doritos went, but really? [...]
One dumb thing I’m going to have to stop doing is getting all envious and annoyed when I hear of people born around the same time as me who have established careers and long lists of achievements to boot. Reading up on Turbulence‘s biography, I was shocked to see that the artist was a 1980 [...]