Adolf Alzuphar

Vic Mensa’s most recent release There’s Alot Going On, an EP, fires at American society without remorse, except on “New Bae” wherein he celebrates his ability, ingenuity even, at meeting…

No cosmetic company in the world could have dreamed that they would make the windfall of profits that come from fans of Rihanna singing “work, work, work, work, work” and…

A-side   The Orwells Terrible Human Beings   The Orwells: it’s not just one George Orwell laying us down 1984, but a band of them, troubadours of this society’s recklessness…

If you want to be my disciple, you must hate everyone else by comparison–your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters–yes, even your own life. Luke 14:26.  …

When thinking and writing about Hip Hop, most often veer into appendexical thought, bringing up the rapper’s origins, family, place of birth, how he or she died, etc. It seems…

Walter Asogwe picked out a moleskin from his bag. Hiding in a room minutes away from the very same freeway that could sent cops his way was, quite simply, agonizing.…

It was through thinking deeply that he lived life most intensely.   Capt. Huerta made his way to the third room on the left, with them. Though well lit, the…

* for Jamila W.   I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill (fats domino)   4 sit at the “The Early Bird,” still at 10:30am   imagine it, as after…

Prologue: 7 red, 9 white, and 7 black, wax, candles in hand, a funeral chants enlightenment.   Poor, but content, in May, Monica, Luisa, Joni, and Patricia, in Washington D.C.,…

When it’s carnival in Haiti, women, in red, in blue, in beige, in yellow, in white, in black, in pink, and other colors, and men, in mostly black, white, beige,…

It’s a kinetic mystery, that hits you, abruptly, as a homo sapien, fated like those before u to leave and find whimsy elsewhere, and it’s always been the much questioned…

Yummy! Yuck You’ve tasted this?   1. Fuck The Money   As per the French theorist Nicolas Bourriaud, many of our modernities can be defined as yearning explosion, or a…

“The new music” is an epic: it always is. Mozart’s becoming was an epic, and so is Solanges’s & Beyonce’s (etc…) I have been writing this epic for some time…

Other than “La Pesonn,” the songs below were compiled in an essay by Lynch Kenol published in 1938 entitled “Autours de nos chansons populaires.” He is an unknown writer, even…