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The 2024 edition of the Big Ears Festival provided a new focus on rap and plenty of personal revelation. André 3000. Photo by Andy Feliu “To those who in all times have sought truth and who have told it in their art or in their living, who died in honor …To those in all…
The beloved anime creator’s passing is also a loss for hip-hop culture. Akira Toriyama in 1982. Photo by JIJI Press / AFP) / Japan OUT (Photo by STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images) Rap Column is a column about rap music by Vivian Medithi and Nadine Smith for The FADER. Even a decade ago, being…
The Atlanta rapper talks wrestling, his city’s rap lineage, and his new project SUPER BOSS!. Bear1Boss. Photo by Bear1Boss. When I hop on a Zoom call with Bear1Boss, he immediately notices the embarrassing amount of wrestling action figures displayed on the bedroom wall behind me. Like wrestling fans tend to do when they meet…
In this week’s Rap Column, Nadine Smith explores how the charismatic Baton Rouge rapper paved his own lane over the last decade. Kevin Gates. Photo via Atlantic Records. Rap Column is a column about rap music by Vivian Medithi and Nadine Smith for The FADER. Kevin Gates is a weird rapper. He’s not “weird”…
In the wake of massive layoffs at Pitchfork, Nadine Smith, a Pitchfork rap freelancer for half a decade, tracks the site’s growth from hip-hop gadfly to an essential critical voice of the genre. Isaiah Rashad performs at the 2014 Pitchfork Music Festival in July 20, 2014. Photo by Roger Kisby/Getty Images. Rap Column is…
Hundreds of thousands of mixtapes unavailable on streaming services are waiting to be enjoyed, courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here are a few standouts. Online music is inherently precarious — if a physical recording of something is never made, it’s dangerously easy to erase any sign that it ever existed. With mass layoffs in the…
Coming ahead of an expected new project, the rapper’s recent singles campaign has been an unorthodox throwback. Screenshot from Playboi Carti’s “2024” music video A vicious debate rages across the internet this month, with manifestos etched into comment sections and forum threads. Picking the best Playboi Carti single out of the past four weeks…
Years after its underground exploded, the Wisconsin city is still rich with exciting hip-hop artists. So often, when regional rap scenes blow up nationally, they’re treated too much as a passing novelty: a city has its moment in the sun, and then it’s on to the next one. Just as frequently, the popularity of regionally-specific…
The FADER’s Vivian Medithi looks back on the year’s standout rap features. (L) Lil Yachty. Photo by Gunner Stahl (M) Niontay. Photo by Christopher Currence. (R) Central Cee. Photo by Jimmy Fontaine The art of the rap feature is competitive and collaborative in equal measure. A good guest verse isn’t just well-executed, but a…
In this week’s Rap Column, Vivian Medithi examines how “Music’s Biggest Night” has dealt with hip-hop over the decades. Will Smith. Photo by MATT CAMPBELL/AFP via Getty Images I have at least two fond memories involving the Grammys. The first is thanks to my dad, who routinely purchased the officially licensed CD of Grammy…