This chapter from a 2014-2015 series on early rap music focuses on how artists responded to the crack plague of the mid-to-late 1980s.
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Category: Spotlight
Rap Songs for Home
As the coronavirus epidemic continues to roil the globe, home has taken on a new urgency. This playlist assembled around a word is fraught with meaning.
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Living in the Afterfuture: Mike Ladd Explores the Science of Non-Fiction
In this 2002 interview with Kitchen Sink magazine, Mike Ladd discussed his work as a poet, musician and hip-hop theorist.
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Editor’s Note: February 29, 2020
Welcome to the redesigned edition of Critical Minded.
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Madlib, the Instrumentalist
Madlib is one of the most acclaimed hip-hop producers of the past two decades. But his instrumentals often go unnoticed.
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