In 2013, Kanye West profoundly declared, “We culture. Rap is the new rock and roll! We the rockstars!” If rappers are our new rockstars, Migos have somehow managed to combine the godly excess of stadium rock with arrogance of punk.…
Melody on Music: Sleeping Beauty
Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. Beginning in 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past…
TV Review: Atlanta 1×03 “Go for Broke”
Staying alive is its own kind of hustle, especially when it comes down to the lives of Alfred, Earn and Darius in the third episode of Atlanta, “Go For Broke.” Each have something to lose. For Earn, it’s his sense…