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How Kenny Mason learned to follow his inner visions (opens the original)
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In a city teeming with eccentricity, Kenny Mason's emergence is strange even for Atlanta. He's exactly what one might expect from a third or fourth generation ATLien in a sense. Yet he's also an outcast in a city of them. An isolationist at heart whose saving grace ranged from Smashing Pumpkins to Peewee Longway, the rap-rock iconoclast's third studio album, BULLDAWG, is so seamless a hybrid it's hard to tell where his devotion to one genre ends and his experimentation with another begins. But i
The week in hip-hop: the game theory of Lil Durk's acquittal (opens the original)
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One of rap's most baffling memes of the decade took on near-prophetic meaning with the conclusion of Lil Durk's murder-for-hire trial last week. The once-viral photo of Young Thug and Lil Durk inspired more jokes than serious speculation when it first circulated in 2018. The irony was disarming. Literally. It stripped two of America's most-wanted rappers of their street-coded context. A bespectacled Thug looked to be imparting some hidden wisdom, his hand hovering over the mouse while a wide-eye
The week in hip-hip: the game theory of Lil Durk's acquittal (opens the original)
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One of rap's most baffling memes of the decade took on near-prophetic meaning with the conclusion of Lil Durk's murder-for-hire trial last week. The once-viral photo of Young Thug and Lil Durk inspired more jokes than serious speculation when it first circulated in 2018. The irony was disarming. Literally. It stripped two of America's most-wanted rappers of their street-coded context. A bespectacled Thug looked to be imparting some hidden wisdom, his hand hovering over the mouse while a wide-eye
The week in hip-hop: criticism vs. the rap media personality complex (opens the original)
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Last week DJ Vlad declared himself the "Hip-Hop Journalist of the Decade." The title caps are his, not mine. His naysayers — almost impossible to distinguish from his six million subscribers — were quick to call cap. The successful YouTuber, best known for conducting artist interviews many liken to police interrogations, made the proclamation just days after another YouTuber of distinction, former rapper N.O.R.E. of "Drink Champs," called him the worst thing a mixtape DJ-turned-multi-millionaire
The week in hip-hop: Gettin' dead fresh with Erykah Badu and Saul Williams (opens the original)
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They say the universe has a way of gifting you exactly what you've been fiending for. So does the algorithm. Because I swear social media has been feeding me an endless loop of astrological predictions and tips for ancestral veneration. It feels like being called-out online has been replaced by being called on. Once relegated solely to the evangelicals, the calling used to be something that only came from on high. Now, I'll be damned if it ain't coming from my wifi. 'Round midnight last Friday,
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