
The brothers started giggling at nothing. They felt warm and happy. Pete was relaxed and felt fantastic, the woes of his body’s deterioration faded away.
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Written by DAVE WEDGE Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
The brothers started giggling at nothing. They felt warm and happy. Pete was relaxed and felt fantastic, the woes of his body’s deterioration faded away.
Written by DAVE WEDGE Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS
I made it into the Bronx, dumped my car in a fenced-in pay lot around 200th street, grabbed a couple notebooks and pens, my keys and the clothes on my back and started walking toward the war zone.
Written by DIG STAFF Filed Under: A+E, FEATURES, Non-fiction
"I know we’re going to get people that roll their eyes about the name of the book because they think it’s a marketing ploy and a t-shirt, but to them I’ll just say 'read it.'"
Written by DAVE WEDGE Filed Under: FEATURES, News, Non-fiction
This legal Ping-Pong game will continue to go back and forth through his trial. Meanwhile, Dzhokhar sits in his cell, living off meals of chicken and rice and allowed to make only one phone call, write only one letter each week.
Written by DAVE WEDGE Filed Under: FEATURES, MUSIC, Specials
While a lot of MCs from the '90s and early 2000s try in vain to chase trends set by rappers half their age, Twice Thou avoids this pitfall. He's mature, and instead reflects on hard lessons learned while sticking to the formula he's had for two decades ...
Written by GEORGE HASSETT Filed Under: FEATURES, MUSIC, Specials
I interviewed Kool Gee the day after he rocked Wally’s. At his request, we met at the place where the TDS Mob story begins—the stoop of the old Tower Records on the corner of Newbury Street and Mass Ave. From there, he took me back to 1989, when TDS ran the calendar with a year of rap perfection.
Written by TAK TOYOSHIMA Filed Under: FEATURES, MUSIC, Specials
"He was gone before his time ... People didn’t really get to experience his full potential like we did … He was right on the cusp of doing some even bigger stuff musically [that] could have been commercially successful.”
Like so much history about communities of color, the narrative of Boston hip-hop has been largely buried, ignored, forgotten. Thankfully, there remain innumerable artists, writers, fans, and even academics who, in the storytelling tradition rap music is rooted in, have kept dope alive via marvelous multimedia tributes. This whole package is dedicated to them.
Written by DIG INTERN Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts
"He was gone before his time ... People didn’t really get to experience his full potential like we did … He was right on the cusp of doing some even bigger stuff musically [that] could have been commercially successful.”
Written by GEORGE HASSETT Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts
I interviewed Kool Gee the day after he rocked Wally’s. At his request, we met at the place where the TDS Mob story begins—the stoop of the old Tower Records on the corner of Newbury Street and Mass Ave. From there, he took me back to 1989, when TDS ran the calendar with a year of rap perfection.