What Hip-Hop Owes David Bowie
The Internet has been (rightfully) full of David Bowie tributes in the last week, including a series of pieces about the icon’s influence on hip-hop music. Noisey traced Bowie’s public admiration for...
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Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Vickie Stringer
Vickie Stringer’s voice is soothingly sweet and smooth over the line. I notice she keeps using my name, drawing me in—“Don’t you think so, Cullen?” and “Cullen, isn’t it true…” I could have listened to...
View ArticleDe La Soul and Snoop Dogg
As part of the lead-up to De La Soul’s next album And The Anonymous Nobody, the group has released a new single featuring Snoop Dogg. The album is set to come out via a crowdfunded, independent release...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Samantha Irby
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Samantha Irby about her new essay collection, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, all that comes along with writing about your life, and reading great horror books. This...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #173: Hanif Abdurraqib
Before reading Hanif Abdurraqib’s third book, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, my knowledge of A Tribe Called Quest was superficial. I knew that they were one of the big hip-hop...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Hanif Abdurraqib
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Hanif Abdurraqib about his new poetry collection, A Fortune for Your Disaster (Tin House, September 2019), how the film The Prestige became the unifying principle...
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