…I tried mobile blogging and it was a big fat fail. So, I have painstakingly retyped the post from my cell phone. Bravissimo. Or whatever that means. “This is my first attempt at mobile blogging, so please excuse me if it comes out weird (does two weeks later count as weird?-Ed.). The predictive text function [...]

October 12 will mark the ten year anniversary of Mos Def’s magnum opus “Black On Both Sides”. The critically-acclaimed record was one of the last gasps in the “Golden Era of Hip-Hop” (though it technically was released after the widely accepted 1988-1998 time frame), released the same year as The Roots’ “Things Fall Apart” and [...]