“Hip-hop was never meant to be here,” Moe Pope told the crowd of family, friends, and artistic associates who came out for the event.
RAPPERS + SUBSTANCE = W.O.K.E.
Collectively W.O.K.E. touches on topics ranging from creeping fascism and artificial intelligence to prison and debt.
HUMBLE PI: HOMEBOY SANDMAN, EDAN, AND THE GENESIS OF HIP-HOP’S MOST DYNAMIC ALL-STAR DYAD
“I’m less enthusiastic about the cyber collab—I don’t want to live my life that way. So just the fact that he was down to make the trek repeatedly and be here, and even be here in those instances when I’m looking through records, he was patiently just around.”
BILLY DEAN THOMAS: THE QUEER B.I.G. REDEFINING AMERICAN GOTHIC
Taking inspiration from live performances, underground artists, and silent film, The Queer B.I.G. creates a night of American Gothic hip-hop this Friday at Oberon.
WHEEL OF TUNES: JPEGMAFIA
The rising glitch rapper talks shocking news, his love for Mass Effect, and the biggest misunderstandings about what it’s like to be in the Air Force.
BRANDED AUTHENTIC: THE TIDAL WAVE OF BOSTON HIP-HOP
Why Mark Merren is rounding up the coolest rising rappers for one of the biggest nights in Boston hip-hop.
IN KOUNTRY WAYNE’S WORLD, COMEDIANS MAKE MORE SCRATCH THAN RAPPERS
“They thought it was a trend. Eventually I’d get back into music. They say, okay, let’s use the fans on the comedy and bring them back over here. And that’s cool. But after long it was like, shoot, the comedy is what it is.”
THAT N-WORD AGAIN
A short history of rationalization, hate, and debate
THE BEST LOCAL ALBUMS OF 2018 (SO FAR)
From alternative hip-hop to chamber folk, here’s a cheat sheet to Boston’s best music of the year so far.
‘SHOW ‘EM WHATCHA GOT’ AT THE MASS HIP-HOP ROADSHOW
The scrapbook party rockers are asking heads in their network and whoever else is in possession of relevant goods to bring items to be digitally archived, so that all eras and elements of the culture can be represented and catalogued for future generations—for research purposes, sure, but primarily so that their contributions can be scanned in stone.
