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The New Album You Need to Hear This Week
Art by DJ Short
If form does, in fact, follow function, then it’s fitting that the one time Serengeti sounds like Drake is when he’s rapping as a character whose mansion was sold to a “crypto kid from Miami.” “He put LED lights in the tige...
Wu-Tang Goes to the Ballpark
All art by DJ Short
- In April, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced that the Wu-Tang Clan would join its Class of 2026, making it the ninth rap group and the first-ever act from Staten Island to receive such an honor. Resultantly,...
Not So Italian After All
Jay-Z & Kanye West, “Living So Italian”
Theoretically, a Kanye and Jay-Z song produced by Lex Luger that sounds like the slo-mo bombing of a Gothic cathedral should be the greatest thing ever made. In practice, it was the first song I...
After Further Review: De La Soul’s Stakes Is High
Art by DJ Short
“After Further Review” was an idea I came up with years ago to discuss key recordings long after their original release, exploring whether the passage of time led to a change of perspective or new insights. For this install...
The Ten Most Underrated Rap Albums of 2006
Twenty years after the fact, Andrew Friedman goes deep on ten LPs he insists deserve a second look.
At this point, we know the supposed story: Napster and the internet in general leveled the playing field for hip-hop. Blogs and message boa...
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a writer from long island. words in POW, pitchfork, the new york times, and twitter
Editor-in-Chief, POW Magazine
Head of THE LINX. Contributor for POW, Pitchfork, and SuperEmpty. South Florida Superstar. 🔗
Writer, critic, artist | Author, "Shake the City" from 1968 Press, second edition coming November 2026 | Words at Los Angeles Review of Books, Salvage, Jacobin, Protean, elsewhere... | X/Bluesky/Insta: @ubupamplemousse
words by dj short
Nia is a writer from the Bay Area, and for the past five years, she has covered music in the Bay and beyond through her magazine Lucky 7.
Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the Fuck to Sleep, Rage is Back, The End of the Jews, Angry Black White Boy, The Golem of Brooklyn, I Had a Brother Once and a whole bunch of other fly shit.
Brooklyn via Cambridge
mostly songs, movies, pictures, and stories
Veteran music journalist & cultural critic, award-winning podcaster, vinyl DJ, ex-public radio renegade, non-conformist.
CALTROPS PRESS is writing about rap muse-sick & “art” & litter-ature & infinite texts from an insurrectionist perspective. Insurgent music journalism that isn’t music journalism. Fuck the noise, and get off the internet.
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