From Public Radio International’s Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, co-hosted this week by Julie Klausner:
Andrew Noz of Cocaine Blunts, came by to recommend Turn On the Lights by Future and Bible on the Dash by GunPlay.
1) I will be doing a new column at Pitchfork called Diamonds & Wood. For the first installment I wrote about new retro rappers.
2) I wrote about Orlando’s Armstrong and Grandaddy Souf for the RBMA carpetbagger column.
3) I interviewed DJ Burn One for Fader’s Beat Construction.
Fader: Beat Constuction - DJ Mustard Q&A
After a brief hiatus, Beat Construction is back. And with the very talented DJ Mustard (“Rack City,” a thousand other records).
It’s appropriate that he used the word culture when describing his long term goals for the (frustratingly named) Ratchet Movement. A music-driven, party-oriented alternative to gang activity and street violence? It almost sounds like this cultural movement that happened on the other side of the country several decades ago.
I interviewed pioneering Memphis DJ Spanish Fly for Red Bull. Here he is pictured with the “Triggerman” architects themselves, The Showboys, during what must’ve been one of their earliest Memphis visits.
TALKING
THIS WEEK I TALKED TO ALCHEMIST ABOUT TURKEY BACON AND MR. MUTHAFUCKIN EXQUIRE ABOUT MR. MUTHAFUCKIN EDDIE HAZEL. THAT IS ALL.
Sum Shit I Wrote
Waka Flocka Flame Triple F Life Review @ Spin
Fat Rodney & Fat Trel DC Carpetbagger’s Choice @ RBMA
WORLD PREMIERE
2 Chainz is featured on my new album. Also I wrote an article about him.
The Wire went and dedicated an entire issue to my favorite thing in the world - BASS. In it I wrote short essays about Gucci Mane’s “Swing My Door,” Too $hort’s “Freaky Tales,” Pete Rock & CL Smooth’s The Main Ingredient and Junkyard Band’s “Sardines” as well as this unrelated suicide note about buzz and the rap internet.
Frank 151’s DOOM issue is available now or a little bit after now. It is shiny and contains a gangload of MF Doom research and minutiae including a brief history of the legendary CM Crew penned by yours truly. I spoke with Kurious, Lord Sear, Bobbito, MF Grimm, Benn Klingon and Kadi about the collective’s inauspicious graffiti origins and how, despite popular misconception, CM doesn’t actually stand for Constipated Monkeys. (Or at least not exclusively.)
