Cutting Room Jams
Mosi ReevesFootnotes and marginalia from a culture journalist, critic, and collector. Mostly music, but sometimes other stuff, too.
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Cutting Room Jams: Work 2025
An index of stories I published last year.
This is a catalog of all the stories I published in 2025, separated by publication (and omitting my handful of Substack updates). The format is inspired by the annual indexes that journals like Na...
Cutting Room Jams: A Brief Q&A with D'Angelo
Revisiting a 1999 interview with the generational talent who passed away earlier this month.
Michael Eugene Archer, better known as D’Angelo, passed away on October 14 after a brief struggle with stage four cancer. He only completed three...
Cutting Room Jams: What's Next?
A conversation with NPR's Rodney Carmichael about the end of the BET Hip Hop Awards and the future of the culture.
On August 5, BET announced that it was suspending production of the BET Hip Hop Awards, an annual showcase that celebrated t...
Fixed, in a Hole
Ramblings from a season in creative retreat.
Every writer has an unseen catalog of failed projects. They have lists of stories that were never realized, and outlines that were never fleshed out. They have unpublished interviews, unfinished...
Cutting Room Jams: Underground Rap's Gender (Im)Balance
An essay originally published in The Wire, ELUCID in concert, and thoughts on Jean Grae's memoir.
In January, The Wire editor Lucy Thraves issued a call to contribute to an opinion-based section it once published until 2018, “Collateral Da...
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