I’ve recently been engrossed in a book titled “Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap,” which highlights the ever-evolv…
The TYF Monthly Mixtape: September 2020
In our TYF Monthly Mixtape feature, our music writers share Spotify playlists of the songs – new and old – they’ve had on repeat for…
Hip Hop Roundup: A Savage Land and a Boomin’ Metropolis
Project of the week: 21 Savage & Metro Boomin’ – Savage Mode II At one point on Savage Mode II, cinema legend Morgan Freeman asks the …
Hip Hop Roundup: Ricky Felix, “Oakland Nights,” and more
Album of the Week: Ricky Felix – High End Theory An overlooked theme of Eastern Massachusetts rap in 2020 is the amount of producer-led collabor…
The Genius of the Soundtrack to “The Social Network”
As one of the most universally-praised films of the past decade, there’s a lot to love about The Social Network (2010). The individual performances fr…
Hip Hop Roundup: Unpacking the XXL Freshman List
The XXL Freshman List is an interesting entity for many different reasons, There’s a lot of subplots embedded inside the main narrative of predi…
Top 20 Pavement Songs
The ‘90s were the last true safe haven for standard rock music, giving birth to movements like grunge, post-rock, math-rock, and even the revival of p…