The Book
So it’s done. After almost two years of relative radio silence on this here blog, I’ve just completed the last edits to the text of a book that I began writing almost four years ago. It’s called The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, the first-ever definitive narrative—spanning an epic 40 years—of […]
Dan Charnas on IllDoctrine.com
Jay interviewed me for his second piece on Asher Roth. Check it here: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpcrQ4SvaGE] You can watch his first piece here.
White Devil Becomes White Angel – Tony D. R.I.P. (1966-2009)
Very few white boys in hip-hop could make the Black heads say, “Damn!” Rick Rubin did it. Eminem could too. And so could the producer Tony D. I still have clear memories of that day, 20 years ago, when my roommate Paul incessantly imitated a song he heard on Red Alert’s radio show, a song […]
2:00 a.m., Harlem
Still noises of celebration in the streets… Good Night, and God Bless America. Tonight, she deserves those blessings.
A Nation Changed, A Nation Unchanged
From my piece in NewsOne: The election of the first Black president of the United States is not the end of white supremacy in America. But it is the beginning of the end. America was founded upon the very idea of the white man reigning. America was conceived by conquering, colonial, Christian Europeans. They vanquished […]