Honestly? 2021 wasn’t that great for albums. Maybe it’s just me and the brutal year that I had but there wasn’t an album that truly blew me away top to bottom like several records were last year. Sheer volume of mainstream releases took place of the quality and variety from…
Pop music is weird. 2021 made that abundantly clear, an extremely precise divide between the brain-meltingly bad, the appallingly average, and pure pop perfection. I never bought into the stock Tik Tok had on popular music until studying the charts and going on it myself. …
The day I finally met Assane Dramé in person was Saturday, September 25th. We’d been talking about finally linking for what felt like ages, work schedules and globe halting pandemics kept everything at a standstill. We went to Pinky’s Hotbox, a chicken spot in Torrance on Crenshaw. After a ‘You…
I remember exactly where I was when I found out Mac Miller died. I was sinking into a leather recliner, enjoying a mundane day off as I awaited my little brother to come home from school. My mind was rotting on a game of NBA 2K, a lousy excuse to…
T/W: Discussion of Suicide
I used to think something was wrong with me when I was depressed. Everyone was playing these upbeat songs and here I was, deflated and lifeless playing “Heavenly Father” by Isaiah Rashad on repeat. I didn’t quite understand what I was feeling, what it meant, or…
Perhaps the most interesting part about wrestling is its characters. The variety of daredevil stunts and stiff strikes pop off the screen but they are nothing without a distinct look. In a majority of Western wrestling, the ability to understand a wrestler’s motivations and to grasp their origins is essential…
Almost everyone knows where they were when Frank Ocean’s Blonde came out. It was right at the end of an often mythologized summer of 2016. It was transformative for me. I moved out of Lakeland, Florida after my sophomore year of high school as my family packed our bags in…
