Uptown Notes

This morning I woke to #RIPBIGPUN as a trending topic on twitter and was conflicted about bigging up Pun. Pun [...]

I love hip-hop, love some reggaetón too, I love the youth, but I’m pretty sure I don’t love this!
How many [...]

It’s been a minute since I dropped a Friday Funny on ya’ll, probably because I’ve been traveling the Diaspora for [...]

On Sunday night, Kanye West once again burst into the limelight with his interruption of Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at [...]

Hip-Hop has been political, you just haven’t been paying it attention. My reflection on the Black August Hip-Hop Project.

You know how you say “what is there to do today/tonight?” Well I have an answer for you from today [...]

I can enjoy songs about summer… check the video by Dead Prez for Summertime and make sure to cop “Pulse [...]

I thoroughly enjoyed New Muslim Cool for its careful treatment of Hamza who beautifully embodies two of the most powerful social forces of the past 30 years: Hip-Hop and Islam. As a child of Hip-Hop and an admirer of Islam, I was pleased to see that the “new muslim cool” may just be the maturation of the old muslim cool.

I like to laugh … particularly at people trying to break coconuts.

Mos is back on the radar. Dropping a project and reuniting with Talib Kweli this week. I’m there.