Top 10 Uses of Food as Metaphor in Hip Hop
Time to get funky, like an old batch of collard greens.
Rap on Overthinking It
The Musical Talmud: Do You Remember
I remember a lot of things. So does Jay Sean.
4 · Read More »
The Musical Talmud: Tik Tok (by Ke$ha)
On memory, selling weirdness, and the Persistence of Persistence.
Dr. Jekyll and 50 Cent
Not affiliated with the Keanu Reeves version. Alas.
What’s in a Nickname? Or a Half-Dozen of them?
Would a Founder of Funk by Twenty-Odd other names dance as funky?
6 · Read More »
Episode 44: Where’s The Beef?
The Overthinkers go through some listener feedback, pick on the host, talk racial normativity, and engage in an epic rap battle on the merits of Kanye.
Listen Now · Download · 16 · Show Notes »
Illmatic and the Crisis of Peaking Young
Is it better to peak early and produce something legendary, or build slowly and culminate in something merely excellent?
Great Moments in Racial Discourse #1: “Vato” by Snoop Dogg
According to Wikipedia, on August 30, 2006, Pharrell Williams himself said on BET that the new song he’d produced would not only show off his gangsta side, but also tackle the issue of racial conflict in Los Angeles between African … Continued
6 · Read More »
The Bling Bubble
“Da Game is to be told, not to be sold.” — Snoop Dogg, 14th Annual Conference on Hip Hop Securitization In 2003, I identified what I believed to be a speculative bubble for bling bling — the shine, the scrilla, … Continued