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Decadepalooza III: The 1980s
MMH contributors Nate Mondschein & Simon Pruitt are back with another installment of everyone’s favorite time-traveling-music-festival-thought-experiment, focusing in this installment on all the best synth-happy, LINN-drum lavished, leather-laden tracks of the 1980s!
BIA Is An Absolute Star, and It Shouldn’t Be A Surprise To Anyone
Chris Conner dives into the emergence of the rapper BIA, and explains how her arrival was a long time coming.
Singing to the Klan
How singing gave us strength when confronted by the KKK and a reflection on the role of music in animating social movements throughout American history.
Drake’s Sixth Album is His Most Confident In Some Time, For Better or Worse
A nontraditional Certified Lover Boy review for a nontraditional artist. Chris Conner leaves the mic on your stage, MMH style.
Beef Rap: Verses, Vengeance, and Violence Plagues the Rap Game
With over 60,000 songs posted on Spotify a day, you could damn near bet your bottom dollar that at least 10,000 of those songs are dedicated to a Black male dead by gun violence, likely between the ages of 15-25. Chad thinks the streets that gave us hip-hop deserve better.
Jadakiss is the Jordan Of Verzuz
Carl Henderson, II, a lifelong Dipset stan, gives his take on what it felt like to watch his adolescence get demolished on live television at the recent The LOX Vs. Dipset Verzuz.
Catching up with Kickstradomis
Salvador ‘Kickstradomis’ Amezcua spent years building his custom shoe business. He has been commissioned for Fortune 500 projects and is trusted by your favorite NBA star to bless their version of work boots. Music, Movies, and Hoops caught up with Kicks to check in on what he’s been working on, what he was listening to while painting, and what he’s watching to get through this pandemic.
Big K.R.I.T. Deserves his Flowers
Chris Conner acknowledges the new and old music of rapper Big K.R.I.T. and gives earned credit and recognition.