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Kamasi got that premature evaluation. (I woulda picked it.)
+7 | 6/19/18 2:20 PM
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I understand all of this, and yet I have never been less interested in hearing wealthy artists flex about their wealth. I know that the insane, vertiginous come-up is a huge part of the story with both of these artists -- maybe it *is* the story -- but I really don't want to hear anyone say "it's disturbing what I gross" like that is something uncomplicatedly good.
+22 | 6/18/18 4:18 PM
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+12 | 6/15/18 2:26 PM
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Yeah, late pass. I'm embarrassed, frankly.
+4 | 6/15/18 1:27 PM
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I think that was my first day on staff! They stopped me from doing shit like that after about 5 minutes.
+19 | 6/14/18 11:03 AM
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Thank you guys. Ain't nobody getting paid by the word.
+24 | 6/13/18 2:38 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU2mn_S0kls
+3 | 6/12/18 5:19 PM
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Saw the Hold Steady's 6th show ever at the Ottobar, opening for the Oranges! (They also played their 2nd show ever in Baltimore, at the Talking Head, but I didn't go for some dumb reason.)
+4 | 6/11/18 5:18 PM
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Ricky, on the other hand, is definitely a rock and roll fan. And I can tell because look! A guitar!
+35 | 6/11/18 12:12 PM
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Maybe he heard the imports.
+25 | 6/11/18 10:56 AM
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I'm from Baltimore, so it's fuck DC as a staff, a record label, and a motherfucking crew. (Baltimore has a little-brother complex about every other city on the eastern seaboard.) I did like that story tho.
+8 | 6/11/18 10:36 AM
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She actually got two. Two very, very different ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f6Wn9pwDgA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlwQ2ao9iUI
+13 | 6/7/18 2:22 PM
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The Cardi B album is better than the Neko Case album. Stereogum's list was based on staff voting and the vagaries of subjective taste, but some things are just simply and obviously true, and this is one of them. Sorry.
-4 | 6/7/18 11:08 AM
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I.... didn't know this. Fuck. Music is amazing.
+16 | 5/31/18 1:04 PM
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Rock and Roll Cage Match. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001EUTOD4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
+14 | 5/30/18 4:03 PM
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No! I had a whole thing written yesterday and I had to completely scrap it and start over. On the other hand, it was about how good Drake is at rap feuds, so maybe yeah.
+29 | 5/30/18 2:41 PM
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I literally wrote a chapter in a book about the Jay/Nas feud like 10 years ago.
+72 | 5/30/18 1:08 PM
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It's a Razor Ramon shirt. I respect this enormously.
+7 | 5/23/18 4:39 PM
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To hear him tell it, nobody had. He didn't remember saying what he'd said at first, and he seemed incredulous that it would really bother anyone. As for killing the interview, I mean, I don't know. We talked about it internally a lot. But I'm a straight white guy who grew up with every advantage, and I don't think it's up to me to police the way people talk if they didn't come up the same way I did. It's tough, though. The whole thing was bad.
+8 | 5/22/18 12:43 PM
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I know what you're getting at. I asked him about that, he didn't have any good answers, and I felt like I'd ambushed him. That's the real reason we aren't running the interview. That's also the whole situation that bummed me out.
+20 | 5/22/18 12:26 PM
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It's realer and brattier and more plausible. And it's what really happened.
+13 | 5/22/18 11:45 AM
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Go on and like it if you want. The idea of people getting worked up over a critic's opinion continues to be the weirdest thing.
+2 | 5/21/18 11:17 PM
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Listen to "Nobody Knows What's Going On In My Mind But Me" and then listen to "He's So Fine" again. "He's So Fine" is good, but songs like this can get so much better.
+3 | 5/17/18 2:26 PM
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I say this with all the feeling I can muster: Eat a fart.
+3 | 5/15/18 3:45 PM
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I don't know what that is either. I'm not such a deep f/t head that I get in the comments.
+2 | 5/15/18 10:28 AM
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It's Dark And Hell Is Hot is a vastly more important album than When I Was Born For The 7th Time. I liked the Cornershop album a lot. I'm just saying.
+3 | 5/11/18 4:11 PM
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a graph of my opinion of him right now, this second, would be all over the place.
+25 | 5/11/18 2:45 PM
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all i'm saying is: it is definitely friday afternoon.
+20 | 5/11/18 2:45 PM
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Nah, it's bad on its own merits.
+5 | 5/10/18 11:45 AM
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lol i used to be an overnight campus security guard, and i definitely had people walking into my dorm entrance hall while multiple different "biggie having sex" skits were on. never even got a warning.
+2 | 5/9/18 2:46 PM
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YouTube comments on these old songs are *always* amazing, even when the songs are terrible.
+17 | 5/9/18 1:44 PM
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You ever worked at a coffeeshop? You are constantly busy, and you don't have time to lovingly curate the in-house playlist.
+18 | 5/9/18 1:08 PM
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look at this fuckin guy.
+50 | 5/9/18 12:43 PM
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Tom Ewing, whose Popular column directly inspired this column, wrote a beautiful piece about "Telstar": http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2004/11/the-tornados-telstar/
+7 | 5/9/18 12:38 PM
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Because that's how the single was credited. It's not gonna say "Random Studio Musicians" when it gets to Milli Vanilli either.
+15 | 5/7/18 12:46 PM
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There are kung-fu movie tropes, and then there are asian stereotypes. If you can't see the difference between those 2 videos, I can't help you.
+11 | 5/4/18 2:46 PM
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There were too many potential Bonus Beats for this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rxCv5glcIs
+5 | 5/4/18 12:01 PM
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Another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udMlM_9rRb8
+12 | 5/4/18 12:01 PM
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No chance of that, Springsteen never once got to #1.
+16 | 5/3/18 11:55 AM
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good thing pusha does.
+7 | 5/2/18 2:42 PM
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