Zilla Rocca remembers the co-founder of the Roots as a hometown hero.

When Nas yells that it feels like the 90s in here, it’s because they look they’re having fun. The problem with most older rappers is that the music feels like a joyless exercise, a studied attempt to remember the adrenaline of their youth. Illmatic was nobody’s idea of a “fun” record and I’ve always thought […]

Dweez has no hard and fast rules but tends to read things only once. Until recently, I didn’t get vinyl. For all the evil it’s wrought on our attention spans, I am a champion of the ones and zeros. They’ve enabled my iTunes collection to swell and I change residential time zones enough for vinyl […]