After months of playing Bejeweled 3 on my laptop during downtime at home — something to occupy my hands and time while watching TV or listening to music, because, apparently, those things aren’t enough, on their own, anymore — I became bored with it. I’d earned all the badges and accomplished everything I’d hoped to …
Recently, I compared Earl Sweatshirt to both Bret Easton Ellis and Patrick Bateman, and Earl to American Psycho. That very exercise refreshed many of my reactions to the book and its main character. It’s been about a year since I read American Psycho, but it was a deeply moving, even haunting, experience, and I’ve wanted …
As legend has it, 16 year old Earl Sweatshirt’s hip-hop career was a secret to everyone but his OFWGKTA cohorts and fans. Then, his parents found out about his music. So disturbed were they, upon listening to his raps, that they sent young Earl to military school. As a result, his crew is left shouting, …
The excess of Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy — the most celebrated 2010 album in hip-hop, and maybe any genre — left me feeling more than a little turned off. A thought that entered my mind (but not my blog) was that the album represented a moment in hip-hop that mirrored some kind …