free gaza, we on the corner like israelites!

For @LAReviewofBooks, I reflected on the 50th anniversary of Ralph Bakshi’s “Coonskin” and our national obsession with cartoonish racial violence. Check it out: lareviewofbooks.org/article/drawin…

been in mourning for months now & it finally feels like some of my feelings about him & about the way the music industry regards him have been captured. give it a read y'all.

The phrase "objective review" has to be excised from everyone's brains with the Men in Black neuralyzer

Fully reckoning with Turner’s legacy forces us to confront an uncomfortable fact: her trauma has often been mocked in the pop landscape that she helped create. scalawagmagazine.org/2023/05/tina-t…

Hanif’s writing really takes your breath away. Only way I can describe it.

The first interview with Sideshow, by @paulxt. Photos by Jiro Konami. pitchfork.com/features/nobod…

An abolitionist retelling of the moral panic around sagging pants —and how the influences of Southern pop, rap, and regressive gender politics accelerated efforts to police it. By ⁦@AnkhDeLillo⁩ scalawagmagazine.org/2023/06/saggin…

hello editors hire me to write for your publication please Linktr.ee/gardenerjams

the beat for the first 30 seconds is so fucking seismic earth shattering bro youtube.com/watch?v=t-R_bY…

for @scalawagmag, @colonizedlocal and i wrote about the war on iran, propaganda, the global economic order, and how it all relates to the u.s. south. scalawagmagazine.org/2026/03/bombin…

“Black art and buying power aren’t our only commodities; It’s also our outrage, despair, and anger that fuels the zeitgeist. If all publicity is good publicity, then the groundswell of engagement gained from playing in our faces is a go-to attention tactic.” my latest ⛓️‍💥

In this house, the Stroke Of Death beat is a sacred text youtube.com/watch?v=eLnHlR…

@thobbsjourno Happy birthday, have a good one!

happy birthday to me

its very clear to me that people do not believe that understanding antiblackness should alter how they think about all of the categories they use to describe social life, including “social life” and the assumptions that subtend who is a part of it/who is sanctioned out of it

“I'm not suggesting that the beef was meant to distract from political issues… But there's a reason that this particular beef would attract this level of attention at this particular moment, and it goes beyond their respective popularity.” @AnkhDeLillo scalawagmagazine.org/2025/05/who-is…

Hits on something I’ve noticed about Cole for a while now: he sounds so much better on his more playful, lower-stakes verses vs. the heavily conceptual stuff—which often feels clunky or just not very interesting to me

Michael "5000" Watts, the producer who founded Swishahouse and helped propel Houston’s "chopped and screwed" sound to international heights, has died at 52 fox26houston.com/news/michael-5…

coming Feb. 14: New zine on women's work behind the scenes in hip hop and reggaeton, co-edited by Carina Schorske and me, with stories by Harmony Holiday, Jess Lynne, Isabelia Herrera, and more

@danielleamir Dope lineup of writers 💪🏾

In their lyrics, rappers and hip-hop artists have long reduced Tina Turner's abuse to a metaphor for violence, aggression, and dominance. Erasing the nuance of her lived experience stalls our collective understanding of domestic violence and abolition. scalawagmagazine.org/2023/05/tina-t…

ICYMI For @blkagendareport Gerald Horne & I explore the history & political economy of boxing & US race relations, recontextualizing the so-called "Jake Paul phenomenon" geopolitically as a cultural expression of MAGA & thus as uniquely symptomatic of imperial decadence US-style