Refracting Sound
WGWG’s writings on, about and tangential to music.
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The Pleasure and the Pain of the Laughing Hyenas
“We had a deep feeling inside of ourselves that we wanted to kill people, we wanted to commit crimes, we wanted to sell drugs, we wanted to fuck up every goddamn motherfucker… At that point, we figured we could do that or start a band… so w...
Review: Nas/DJ Premier "Light Years"
Nas and DJ Premier “Light Years” cover
Top ten/twenty/etc. lists abound in music journalism, especially in hip-hop, particularly at the end of the year. Magazines, websites, YouTube channels and more clamor to generate and promote documen...
The Value of Music
Music and Money
On Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 album, “To Pimp a Butterfly”, he included a cautionary tale, “How Much a Dollar Cost?”, where he relays a story of buying fuel for a luxury car at a gas station in South Africa. A hom...
De La Soul Isn’t Dead
Posdnuos and Maceo of De La Soul
Long Island’s De La Soul entered the scene in 1989 with their debut album, “Three Feet High and Rising”, a spectral palette of fun, sample-based hip-hop. De La Soul offered a stark contrast to late 1980s hi...
Music as Medicine
Music has been utilized as a therapeutic or healing tool for centuries. The roots of this idea can be traced back to Ancient Greece, where the connection between mind and body through healing sounds was emphasized. The earliest known refere...
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