By: Tom Nealon

“Don’t rap about your car, rap about what a car *is*.”

By: Tom Nealon

His brilliance is perpetually muffled.

By: Brian Berger

“Catch me at the flicks, Apollo rap Frederick Douglass”

By: Joshua Glenn

Were you born between 1964-73? You’re NOT a Gen Xer!

By: Peggy Nelson

The Beatles were crowd­sourced from the start; the latest mash­up is brilliant.

By: Tom Nealon

If OL’ DIRTY BASTARD’s (Russell Tyrone Jones, 1968-2004) madness was a tumor pressing on his genius and making it dance, it also caused him excruciating pain. His anguished, wailing stabs at song remain some of […]

By: Tom Nealon

It seems impossible that the various identities — Prince Rakeem, Bobby Digital, RZArecta, The Abbot, Ruler Zig-Zag-Zig Allah — of rapper, producer, and film scorer RZA (Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, born 1969) form a coherent whole; […]