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Music Fridays

Music Fridays

By
Sean Jacobs

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Mos Def is back. Which means I am happy. This for Ski Beats’ new album coming out in September.

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If you can sit through Lil Wayne’s whiny rap, this has potential. Hello Brooklyn.

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“Half Colombian, Half Mexican Bandit” by California dj, Toy Selecta. (This one via Ghetto Bassquake).

— Sean Jacobs

Further Reading

Writing while black

The film adaptation of Percival Everett’s novel ‘Erasure’ leaves little room to explore Black middle-class complicity in commodifying the traumas of Black working-class lives.

The Mogadishu analogy

In Gaza and Haiti, the specter of another Mogadishu is being raised to alert on-lookers and policymakers of unfolding tragedies. But we have to be careful when making comparisons.

Kwame Nkrumah today

New documents looking at British and American involvement in overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah give us pause to reflect on his legacy, and its resonances today.