You're the only female rapper nominated for Best New Artist. How does that make you feel, and what do you think about more women gaining respect in hip-hop? I feel like this year, a lot more respect has been given to females in hip-hop. I know that we no longer ne...
AFTER John Burroughs senior Greg Toumayan trudged through a series of near all-nighters, his parents were asked to meet with the high school principal and a teacher. Administrators were concerned that Toumayan's droopy eyes and sluggish manner signaled drug use.Toroian, Diane...
This theory has lost some credibility since Trump failed to suspend democracy or invade Poland, but I think there’s actually something to it – so long as it’s understood that Trump is fascist in the Theodor Adorno sense; the way that, say, the Marvel cinematic universe is fascist, rathe...
It wasn’t complex math: I was drinking 28 drinks a week—an amount I’d never consumed in my life. I had just gotten into this routine, thinking that I deserved a bit of relaxation at the end of the day.” As with any habit, the more you do it, the easier it is—and the ...
All set? I don’t really feel like I should have to say all that, but I don’t want some bicyclist popping off in the comments about how I’m endorsing distracted driving. I’m not. Keep your phone in your fucking pocket. All that said, if you ARE going to use your phone, doin...
It’s positively tropical in Chicago today: Here’s the temperature in Fahrenheit, which is -17° C. With the wind, the temperature equivalent is -24° F, or -31° C. The flight out of Chicago have largely been canceled or delayed, but what do I care? I ain’t going nowhere. ...
Reader Steve called my attention to an article I wouldn’t have otherwise seen, as it appeared atThe Daily Maverick,a South African news website. It’s about the recurrent and polarizing problem of what to do about transgender women, born as biological men, who want to compete in women’...
and Disney and Polydor and Sony Music and Warner Brothers became one of the biggest bloodbaths I have ever been witness to,” Kamen recalled inThe Billboard Book of Number One Hits. “Bryan would call me at four in the morning: ‘It’s off, man.’ And then an hour later: ‘It’s ...