In recognition of Valee’s Pitchfork debut, the Reader attempts to quantify the Chicago rapper’s braggadociousness.
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Posted inArts & Culture
Started from the Bottomyards, now we’re gentrified
A hyper-colored, Afrofuturistic graphic novel captures how white privilege feeds on Black neighborhoods.
Posted inBlogs
Cardi B and Nicki Minaj are feuding—and these women in Chicago rap don’t see the point
Psalm One, Akenya, Sisi Dior, Chimeka, and Mother Nature talk about sisterhood, mutual support, and the pernicious notion that hip-hop has room for only one female star at a time.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
How not to be an offensive jerk this Halloween
Don’t even think about going as a “bad hombre.”
Posted inBlogs
Tink joins the small army of rappers jumping on Young M.A’s hot single ‘Ooouuu’
Local singer-rapper Tink drops a cover version of the hot single “Ooouuu” to help push her new mixtape, Winter’s Diary 4.
Posted inBlogs
Please kill the MTV Video Music Awards
The awards show celebrates music videos as a pretense, and in the process it insults the medium.
Posted inBlogs
Reader’s Agenda Thu 4/24: Demetri Martin, American Whiskey Affair, and Princess Nokia
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, April 24
Posted inMusic
In Rotation: Pop critic Jonathan Bogart on transgender Angolan pop star Titica
Current musical obsessions of the Reader’s Tal Rosenberg, “free-floating pop critic” Jonathan Bogart, and writer Britt Julious.
Posted inBlogs
Every inspirational rap-rock cliche in one handy package
“Hall of Fame” sticks to the script
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A Duran Duran-loving metalhead, a debut album almost 20 years in the making, and more on the B Side
A long-in-the-making jazz career, experimental music at the MCA, obscure radio-friendly rock, and more
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Shows to see: Nicki Minaj, Hunters, Hammers of Misfortune
Soundboard recommends Nicki Minaj, Hunters, and Hammers of Misfortune
Posted inBlogs
Pitchfork fest, Pitchfork fest, and Pitchfork fest on this week’s B Side
Let’s get festive
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12 O’Clock Track: Mykki Blanco, “Wavvy”
The widely hyped NYC rapper who just happens to be a drag queen
Posted inMusic
The List: March 31-April 6
Music Critics’ Choices and other notable shows: the Julian Lage Group, the Ben Allison Band, Lil Wayne, Kurt Vile & the Violators, Death and the Powers, Off!, and more