Tag: rap

For stroke survivor Sherman Hershfield, rapping and rhyming kept his seizures under control.

When the nineties’ heart of whiteness met g-funk, it was the illest — and wackest — of times.

A look at how the Beastie Boys invented themselves with their 1992 album Check Your Head.

We believe automatically that Chris Knight is not — could never actually be — that homeless man with a gun. Put the same lyric in Killer Mike’s mouth, though, and you think something different, don’t you? You do not assume instantly that Mike is merely inhabiting a character. No, in your mind, he is the […]

Linda Saetre | The Believer | 2004 | 26 minutes (6,574 words)   The below interview is excerpted from The Believer’s new book, Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence: The Best of the Believer Music Interviews. Thanks to The Believer for sharing this with the Longreads community. * * * ‘Music Is a Mirror of […]

Horovitz: One night at the studio, me and Adam and Mike, we’re waiting outside, drinking beers, and we see Run running down the street screaming, and DMC is way behind him. They were so excited: They’d come up with the idea for our song “Paul Revere” on the way there. We loved Run DMC—and then […]

“The Ghost in the Machine.” Alex Pappademas, Playboy.