Malik Ameer Crumpler

Had a great time interviewing Leon Bridges for At Large Magazine’s Music Issue No. 11. Pick up your copy of the magazine at any of these locations globally.

  “C’est donc Malik Ameer Crumpler, artiste new-yorkais installé à Paris depuis quelques années qui a brillamment assuré cette urgence. Avec un flow beaucoup plus hip-hop que le natif de Boston, les titres comme American Juju, Chaos Embedded ou Seeds se chargent en live d’une énergie percutante.”- Jules Do Mar (texte et photo) @ Soul Bag Magazine Just seeing this review […]

So, here’s the final part of my Itchysilk article on Ms. Lauryn Hill, Beyond Being Woke 2 . I finished this one about a week before Ms. Hill issued her recent statement, so there’s none of me responding to her in this, at all. Instead, this section is about my thoughts on Ms. Hill from […]

MASSIVE THANKS BLACK NERD PROBLEMS for this insightful & in depth review/ feature for Beneath The Underground: Collected Raps 2000- 2018. What a great a feelin’ to represent with my fellow black nerds & a real honor to be amongst the literature reviews. (((((((MERCI BEAUCOUP FELLOW NERDS))))))))))))

So, around this time 20 years ago Ms. Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation album was released. Here’s part one of my article, Beyond Being Woke, that I wrote for Itchysilk about my experience listening to the album, on the first day it was released. Oh, and there’s audio of me reading the article, as well, if […]

Excited, hapi & grateful to share my insights about my experience writing Beneath The Underground: Collected Raps 2000-2018. Massive merci beaucoup Across The Margin for convincing me to write about what I’ve been rapping about, for the past 18 years. Had no idea, until I wrote about what I’ve been writing about, that it was […]

“No Cliché is a ballad inspired by that selfless act, but without falling into the cliché trap.” –Gingerslim

“…Anyway, this one’s chilled beat and falsetto harmonies (from the mysterious A Brother Is…warbling away in the background with his newfangled name) is certainly one to get your significant other onside, and for that reason alone is not to be sniffed at.”– Monkeyboxing

Massive Thanks Simone Marie & the Naked Lunch Soho Radio crew for rockin’ No Cliché yesterday.