The nominees for the 60th annual Grammy Awards were announced on Nov. 28 and included nods for several of the biggest acts of 2017, from Kendrick Lamar and Bruno Mars to Kesha and The National. Like many music and…
Melody on Music: Year-End List Ruiners (Almost)
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. My New Year’s resolution…
Album Review: “Run the Jewels 3” By Run the Jewels
In 2013, Killer Mike and El-P formed Run the Jewels, the exhilarating hip-hop duo that gave both third-decade music veterans the widespread media love and voluptuous public adoration they both deserved decades prior. Only a year later did they produce…
Run the Jewels releases Meow The Jewels
Weekends can get busy for most of us… but not for Run the Jewels, who have finalized their next installment of the Run the Jewels series, Meow The Jewels. I’d like to add that there are so many cats meowing…
Run the Jewels 2: Electric Boogaloo
Mother-F*cker, (religious figure). Damn, was I surprised by this album. To be honest, the first album surprised me as well, but I haven’t heard a record this clean in a while. In theory, I believe Dre’s Chronic (2001) is possibly…