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One of the byproducts of radio's refusal to play more than say, the same eight songs all day, every day, is that you get to really think...

The sequence of events that moved Taylor Swift from wildly successful, really interesting pop star, to the kind of pop star that the suppose...

Holloway House's decision to delay publication of Donald Goines' first manuscript Whoreson until after Dopefiend frustrated the ju...

Though Goines' desire to write stems solely from reading Iceberg Slim, and Goines' and Slim's names are now mentioned together a...

Street Fiction author Jihad, in an essay called "The Resurrection of Street Fiction" put it bluntly: "Saying street fiction ...

Some throat-clearing before, we get down to business with Dopefiend . This project's been slow, my bad. I'm usually obsessive about ...

First, picture by the awesome Kelly Connelly . Today is J Dilla's birthday, which means it is also the day, four years ago that Donuts ...

So, my article on the first great album of 2010--Charred Walls of the Damned's self-titled debut--is in the Village Voice this week. CW...

"In the early days, the best rappers weren’t necessarily from the hood. Run-D.M.C was from Hollis. Eric B and Rakim were from Long Isl...