How Gossip Is Remaking Online Hip-Hop Media

Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | sewer In the latest iteration of online hip-hop media, real music can often seem like an afterthought. The current wave is filled with gossip-focused websites, Instagram accounts, and podcasts that make online conversation about rap stars (and more often those close to them) tabloid-like. This phenomenon isn’t just …

Newly Released, From The Birth of Hip-Hop to Elena Ferrante

ULYSSES, by James Joyce. (Folio, $795) With illustrations by John Vernon Lord, this extravagant 500-copy edition celebrates the novel’s 100th anniversary. BEATRIX POTTER: Drawn to Nature, Edited by Annemarie Bilclough. (Rizzoli Electa, $45.) The accompanying catalog for an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London collects drawings, photographs, and letters from the author …

How Hip-Hop Is Heading to the Super Bowl Halftime Stage

Sunday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, Super Bowl halftime show Local rap heroes Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Kendrick Lamar will place hip-hop firmly at the center of the show, which is regularly watched by multiple people each year. 100 million people for the first time. Produced in part by Roc Nation, Jay-Z’s entertainment …

A Multilayered Praise of Hip-Hop in the Paintings of Troy Lamarr Chew II

The paintings that make up “The Roof is Burning” continue in this line. During the first months of the curfew, Chew was completing his artist residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito. “[The pandemic] it didn’t feel real then, not like it would later. We were hitting the music all the time, …

James Mtume, Who Had ‘Juicy Fruit’ Hip-Hop Rhythm, Dies at 76

Among their production works, Mr. Mtume and Mr. Lucas recorded as the group Mtume, which featured singer Tawatha Agee along with their main musician. Mr. Mtume described the band’s debut albums as “sofistfunk”, using soft harmonies and elaborate orchestrations. But one day Mr. Mtume recalled, “I was playing something that looked just like anything else …

‘All Streets Are Quiet’ Review: Hip-Hop and Skateboarding Collide

In the late 1980s and early 90s, much earlier hyper monsters Skaters gathered in a smaller shop on Lafayette Street spent hours outside the Supreme store in SoHo, waiting for the coveted discounts. There they would smoke cigarettes, watch skateboarding videos, listen to music, and joke with their friends. Director Jeremy Elkin’s documentary “All Streets …

Esther Bejarano, 96, Died; Auschwitz Survivor Fights Hip-Hop with Hatred

After the war, he resumed his life in what would become Israel. He studied singing, joined a choir, taught music, and in 1950 married truck driver Nissim Bejarano and had two children, a son, Joram, and a daughter, Edna. She returned to Germany in 1960, settled in Hamburg and provided laundry services with her husband. …