Shatter the Standards

Shatter the Standards sparks discussion around albums and new music that mainstream outlets often overlook, elevates the next generation, provides context, and keeps hyperbolic industry chatter out of the room.

essayist / critic-at-large things will be okay in the end.

columnist/writer/playlist enjoyer

Nigerian-British R&B chronicler who moves between musical entities with journalistic restraint and poetic restraint.

Loves liner notes, hair salons, and the language of sleeves. 🎨

Words Past da Margin documents the culture as craft, history, and lived record. They document, decode, and celebrate the full spectrum of hip-hop, so every style speaks past the margins of Black music history.

Murffey Zavier has been writing about rap as a hobby for his now-defunct blog. He is also an aspiring writer, film composer, and artist. Even more than that, he is a massive fan of jazz, all kinds of R&B, and hip-hop with an experimental bent.

contributing writer for visual culture, cover art history, and salon-level critique

Just thought I'd share it and write it down while keeping my mind off things.

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People read about you and think you're on top of the world, have everything you want, and can have any woman you want when you're not.

Says what he saw, not what the timeline said.

Fresh start.//be so good that they can't ignore you. Humble beginning and a glorious ending !

helping trace ideas across catalogs without fanfare

staff writer 🗽

* Chef & poet * Child of God * Follower of Yeshua * Born in Brooklyn, NY. Living in Vegas 🇺🇲 🇯🇲

curious, stubborn, fair

Soul and funk historian, and one of the anchors for any lineage project.

it’s a bloom in disguise that the work can look messy first then hit you later like it always knew where it was going

Community-minded writer.

Massive fan of creative nonfiction, essays, and advocacy for the rights of Black women.