EVP, Content @complex Music writer and editor 📠📠📠 Previously: @genius @xxl @massappeal
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.@the_rnb_archive 👊🏽 – at Mount Vernon, NY
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This question just came back to light bc of Rock The Bells asking about what artists have recorded with Pac, Biggie, and Eazy, outside of Bone. (They said Treach is the answer).
I didn’t realize it was Stevie J, but I def never ever thought it was actually Roger on it.
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My dad’s memoir is out today! My sister and I wrote something about the experience of helping him sift through his life and finish this story.
nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opini…
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This was a good essay, with a lot of laying the land and just enough judgment and opinion. Two things I wanna note about Guythat are related but singular in a way that would be too trivial to isolate in this essay BUT I LOVE ANYWAY...first, Piece of My Love...
New SUNDAY REVIEW 📝
Read my deep dive into Guy's classic debut album from 1988 and the birth of new jack swing ➡️ pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…
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100k on our first Genius distro record is not bad at all. Shout out @mynameisntjmack 🙌🏽
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“CONTACT” VIDEO WITH @wave_dre OUT NOW
VIDEO BY Sam Bullard of 444 media
I recorded this after a 5 hour bus ride up to New York, with a sense of being ready to take on music, with that being the metaphorical “war”. It addresses the alter ego “jmack’s” sense of feeling slept on
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Signed one of my favorite artists at the moment for this upcoming single. Make sure you hit the link and presave. This one is so fire 😬😬😬
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Damn this is so crazy. First signing. First Project. Thanks to @mynameisntjmack and @heyimgutty for letting me and Genius be a part of this one. Go stream the album, it's exceptional.
allow us to introduce @mynameisntjmack 🗽
so.genius.com/rPQwlm7
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This is one of the coolest things I've been able to be a part of. Music is tight. Shout out @Kayvanmd @bfred @RobMarkman & most importantly @mynameisntjmack
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Go run this up today. It means a lot to myself, @heyimgutty, @mynameisntjmack and the whole @genius team ❤️🙏🏽
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🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤
This 5-mic tweet warms my heart, 'cuz I know it's true. Perhaps The Source Mind Squad's most enduring contribution to culture is the record rating system. Ratings launched in '91 with a bad broken record icon, evolved into the beloved mics by '92, this update by '93.
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in 1991, Michael Stipe & I walked into a Georgia college bar
A crew of frat boys offered to buy us beers. Then one turns to me & says to me “dude! I love ‘Radio Song’!”
He thought I was KRS-One.
Stipe & I laughed & drank their beer & left
Not the strangest but funny 😆😳
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Agreed . More so, I know what could have been, so it haunts me … streets is watching was the first song made !
Our main argument is his hate for Vol 1.
He is embarrassed for trying to make a monster & not putting numbers up. But ALOT of this lp contains his best moments. Fight me @sc
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30 years ago tonight KRS-One, hip-hop's most essential and respected artist, charged into NYC's Sound Factory with a crew of hardrocks and threw PM Dawn, a hapless crossover act, off the stage. The club went nuts, and the NEXT DAY I sat down to interview the man for @TheSource.
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on @maryjblige’s birthday: a salon event for the rollout of 1994’s #MyLife 🔆 i was new to NYC from Oakland 🔆 music editor @VibeMagazine 🔆 the journey toward #BlackGirlSongbook and SHINE BRIGHT: A VERY PERSONAL HISTORY OF BLACK WOMEN IN POP began long ago