On 2006’s “That’s Life,” Killer Mike boasted “You’d be hard-pressed to find another rapper smart as me,” opening up about Cornel West and Michael Eric Dyson, poverty, respectability politics, and civil rights, before taking on both Bush Administrations (“George Bush don’t like blacks … and his daddy…

Cats are the Internet's favorite pets for many reasons, not least of which is their endless mystery. By some estimates , felines were first domesticated around 12,000 years ago—and yet, even now, we humans don't fully understand something as simple as their purr. There are theories. A purr can…

Trigger warning: If you or someone you love is a fuckboy, do yourself a favor and steer clear of Run the Jewels 2 . You will not like what you hear. Here’s a brief, but nearly complete list of people who are exempt, as handed down by El-P and Killer Mike on RTJ2 : Malcolm X, UGK (Pimp C posthumously…

Even for those of us who go all the way back to “8 Steps to Perfection” and “The Whole World”, it's starting to feel like El-P and Killer Mike have always been talked about in the same breath. The connection makes a kind of retroactive sense going back to their early 2000s solo debuts, Fantastic…

Thursday, 8:00am 30 June 2016 What design didn’t do Critical path Graphic design Information design Posters As a designer I feel guilty, says Marina Willer. Could we have done more to stop Brexit? Twenty years ago, I chose to move from Brazil to London because it is the most diverse and cosmopolitan…

How Italian Cinema came to be Dominated by the Dubbers By Roderick Conway Morris ROME 18 December 1992 To dub or not to dub has never been the question in Italy - or not until now.For decades every foreign film entering the country has been dubbed into Italian, with subtitled versions appearing on…

A New Standard: Kamasi Washington’s Modern Jazz Revolution Thanks to his vibrant musical connection with Kendrick Lamar as well as his own recent three-hour opus The Epic, saxophonist Kamasi Washington has become a worthy ambassador for jazz in the 21st century. By Ian Cohen. Mike Park by…

This post will unpack the leak from the CIA published in the WaPo tonight. Before I start with the substance of the story, consider this background. First, if Trump comes into office on the current trajectory, the US will let Russia help Bashar al-Assad stay in power, thwarting a 4-year effort on…