المحتوى المقدم من Dylan "CineMasai" Green. يتم تحميل جميع محتويات البودكاست بما في ذلك الحلقات والرسومات وأوصاف البودكاست وتقديمها مباشرة بواسطة Dylan "CineMasai" Green أو شريك منصة البودكاست الخاص بهم. إذا كنت تعتقد أن شخصًا ما يستخدم عملك المحمي بحقوق الطبع والنشر دون إذنك، فيمكنك اتباع العملية الموضحة هنا https://ar.player.fm/legal.
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المحتوى المقدم من Dylan "CineMasai" Green. يتم تحميل جميع محتويات البودكاست بما في ذلك الحلقات والرسومات وأوصاف البودكاست وتقديمها مباشرة بواسطة Dylan "CineMasai" Green أو شريك منصة البودكاست الخاص بهم. إذا كنت تعتقد أن شخصًا ما يستخدم عملك المحمي بحقوق الطبع والنشر دون إذنك، فيمكنك اتباع العملية الموضحة هنا https://ar.player.fm/legal.
Reel Notes is a space for conversations about the relationship between rap and film with rappers, producers, journalists, directors, and more. Intro track via JWords (follow her @_jwords on Instagram & Twitter) Art direction via Big Flowers (Instagram: @watermichaelguy, Twitter: @michaelfornow_)
المحتوى المقدم من Dylan "CineMasai" Green. يتم تحميل جميع محتويات البودكاست بما في ذلك الحلقات والرسومات وأوصاف البودكاست وتقديمها مباشرة بواسطة Dylan "CineMasai" Green أو شريك منصة البودكاست الخاص بهم. إذا كنت تعتقد أن شخصًا ما يستخدم عملك المحمي بحقوق الطبع والنشر دون إذنك، فيمكنك اتباع العملية الموضحة هنا https://ar.player.fm/legal.
Reel Notes is a space for conversations about the relationship between rap and film with rappers, producers, journalists, directors, and more. Intro track via JWords (follow her @_jwords on Instagram & Twitter) Art direction via Big Flowers (Instagram: @watermichaelguy, Twitter: @michaelfornow_)
Join me and special guest Navy Blue on Saturday, August 30 at Loudmouth in Brooklyn, for the ninth iteration of Reel Talk, a Reel Notes movie night. We'll be screening the 1999 animated sci-fi drama The Iron Giant and talking about his latest album, Memoirs in Armour. Tickets and more info here . My guest this week is New York singer, songwriter, producer, composer, rapper, and multidisciplinary artist, Cleo Reed. We spoke about local independent movie theaters, Sinners, the French-Canadian drama Incendies, the documentaries Ascension and Time, making their debut album Root Cause, evolving into a multidisciplinary artist, traditions of Black American folk, country, blues, and R&B, and the creative process behind their latest album Cuntry. Come fuck with us. Cuntry is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Cleo's Bandcamp page . Follow Cleo on Instagram , Twitter , and TikTok : @cleoforshort Read my Vinyl Me Please Rising profile of Cleo at the link. My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights , the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
Join me and special guest Navy Blue on Saturday, August 30 at Loudmouth in Brooklyn, for the ninth iteration of Reel Talk, a Reel Notes movie night. We'll be screening the 1999 animated sci-fi drama The Iron Giant and talking about his latest album, Memoirs in Armour. Tickets and more info here . My guests this week are Dan-O and Keith Rollins, the co-hosts of Freemusicempire’s State of The Game podcast. We spoke about the Billy Joel documentary, Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Megalopolis, Terminator, Ikaru, how Dan-O built Freemusicempire into a blog, meeting Keith and developing State of The Game, their growth, being a part of the indie rap podcast community, their creative process, and their upcoming New York showcase, happening at Young Ethel’s in Brooklyn on Friday, August 15. Come fuck with us. Meet Freemusicempire live in New York at their debut showcase, featuring Nappy Nina, SKECH185, August Fanon, shemar, & more. Tickets are $10 and are available at the door of Young Ethel's in Brooklyn the day-of starting at 8:30PM. Listen to State of The Game wherever you get your podcasts , and join the Freemusicempire Patreon for access to exclusive articles and episodes about all things music. Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights , the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
Join me and special guest Navy Blue on Saturday, August 30 at Loudmouth in Brooklyn, for the ninth iteration of Reel Talk, a Reel Notes movie night. We'll be screening the 1999 animated sci-fi drama The Iron Giant and talking about his latest album, Memoirs in Armour. Tickets and more info here . If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! This week’s episode is a bit different than usual: it’s a playback of my conversation with California visual artist Brian Kwon held during the opening week of Genius Loci, his first-ever art exhibit. We spoke about his upbringing, musical tastes, entrance to the world of indie rap, the process of drawing rap shows in real-time, and a handful of the pieces that lined the walls that night, including work featuring billy woods, ShrapKnel, Conductor Williams, and more. Brian and I will be recording a more traditional episode of Reel Notes sometime down the line, but for now, come fuck with us. Follow Brian on Instagram (@beekay.art), subscribe to his Substack , and check out his Linktree to stay tapped in with all things Brian. Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights , the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
Join me and special guest Navy Blue on Saturday, August 30 at Loudmouth in Brooklyn, for the ninth iteration of Reel Talk, a Reel Notes movie night. We'll be screening the 1999 animated sci-fi drama The Iron Giant and talking about his latest album, Memoirs in Armour. Tickets and more info here . If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is Virginia rapper and co-founder of Divine Council, $ilkmoney. We spoke on his 29th birthday about our mutual love for Black sitcoms like The Wayans Bros., The Parkers, and Living Single, the legacy of Bernie Mac , Cam’ron’s roles in Paid In Full and Killa Season, not feeling pressure from Andre 3000 and Tyler, The Creator cosigns, and the creative process behind his latest album Who Waters The Wilting Giving Tree Once The Leaves Dry Up And Fruits No Longer Bear? , out now via Lex Records. Come fuck with us. Who Waters The Wilting Giving Tree is out now wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from $ilk's Bandcamp . Follow $ilkmoney on Instagram (@silkbooty), Twitter (@CUUMMONEY), and TikTok (@silkmunyun). Read my Best New Music review of $ilk's last album, I Don't Give A Fuck About This Rap Shit, Imma Just Drop Until I Don't Feel Like It Anymore , on Pitchfork. Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights , the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( Support the show…
If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is California rapper, producer, one-third of Dilated Peoples, and head of Bigger Picture Recordings, Evidence. We spoke about the phenomenon of watching whatever’s on TV at the moment, The Godfather Part II, White Chicks, the romantic sports coming-of-age movie Lucas, movie theaters as cultural hubs, growing up before and during the rise of hip-hop, his love for producing and photography, moving on from the Weatherman character, and the creative process behind his upcoming album Unlearning Vol. 2, out August 15 on Rhymesayers . Come fuck with us. Unlearning Vol. 2 is out August 15 on Rhymesayers. Pre-order now on Bandcamp and the Rhymesayers site . Follow Evidence on Instagram and Twitter : @Evidence Read my review of Domo Genesis and Evidence's album, Intros, Outros, & Interludes, on Pitchfork . My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights , the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest for the 200th episode of Reel Notes is California-via-Chicago rapper, producer, writer, creator of The New Negroes, founder of Auto Reverse Records and Stony Island Audio—Open Mike Eagle. We spoke about the pros and cons of independent music and journalism, the films of Ari Aster, Spike Lee, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, and the MCU, how Nirvana and Ol’ Dirty Bastard kicked off his deep dive into music, finding himself in Project Blowed, surviving and thriving in a do-it-yourself world, and the creative process behind his latest album Neighborhood Gods Unlimited. Thank y’all so much for fuckin’ with us for 200 episodes. Hope you enjoy :) Neighborhood Gods Unlimited will be out everywhere music is sold, streamed, or stolen on Friday July 11. Consider buying it on Mike's Bandcamp . Follow Mike on Instagram (@open_mike_eagle), Twitter (@mike_eagle), TikTok (@openmikeeagle0), and Twitch (@open_mike_eagle). My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights , the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is New York rapper-singer-songwriter Sumaya Nazar. We spoke about Love Island , The Princess and The Frog and all things Disney, the animated films Muhammad: The Last Prophet and Persepolis, growing up in a Haitian-Tunisian household in Washington Heights, how spending time in Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates changed her perspective, recently embracing Islam, finding her voice as an artist, and the creative process behind her latest EP 1446. Come fuck with us. 1446 is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow Sumaya on Instagram (@sumaya.nazar777) and TikTok (@sumayanazar) My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights , the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is Chicago-via-Maryland-via-Virgnia rapper, producer, and animator McKinley Dixon. We spoke about the Scream and Final Destination franchises, our definitions of what makes a scream queen, Snow Dogs, Tekkonkinkreet, being inspired by Toni Morrison and the late Japanese director Satoshi Kon, the pros and cons of live-band hip-hop, and the creative process behind his latest album Magic, Alive! Come fuck with us. Magic, Alive! is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from from Bandcamp page . Follow McKinley on Instagram (@freemckinley), Twitter (@mckinleydixon), and TikTok (@mckinleydixonn) Read my review of Magic, Alive! over at Bandcamp Daily . My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights , the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is South African rapper Yugen Blakrok. We spoke about Severance, Black Mirror, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, our mutual fascination with horror, martial arts, and samurai films, making a name for herself as a rapper in South Africa, recording her guest verse for Black Panther The Album, her relationship with longtime producer Kanif The Jhatmaster, and the creative process behind her latest album The Illusion of Being. Come fuck with us. The Illusion of Being is out now wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping it directly from her Bandcamp . Follow Yugen on Instagram and Twitter : @yugenblakrok My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights , the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is Chicago-via-Detroit rapper, producer, singer, and songwriter Imani Nichele. We spoke about Babygirl, The Wiz, our current tolerance for musicals, the Temptations, Ray Charles, New Edition, and N.W.A. biopics, being a poet laureate, moving from Detroit to Chicago, fine-tuning her sound, working with Detroit rapper-producer Nolan The Ninja, the idea of jesters and clowns, trusting her artistic vision, and the creative process behind her debut project MERRY&RUE. Come fuck with us. MERRY&RUE is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from her Bandcamp page . Follow Imani on Instagram (@imaninichele_) and Twitter (@maniduhmixer). My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guests this week are New York rapper and engineer blackchai and Tennessee-via-North Carolina rapper, producer, and engineer Illohim, who record together at the duo Pathfinders. We spoke about The Rehearsal, Peacemaker, Friendship, Jet Li’s Fearless, their respective solo careers up to this point, meeting as members of the collective No Clue, their chemistry, and the creative process behind their self-titled debut. Come fuck with us. Pathfinders is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider buying directly from blackchai's Bandcamp . Follow blackchai on Instagram (@blackchai19) and Twitter (@blkchai). Follow Illohim on Instagram (@illohimshymns) and Twitter (@illohim). My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is New York producer and engineer Tony Seltzer. We spoke about Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and the legacy of David Lynch, Harriet the Spy, Little Figuitive, growing up loving metal and hip-hop, transitioning from drumming to producing, why he’s become well-known for the drums in his beats, his impact on underground rap, drifting into A&R, the creative process behind he and MIKE’s Pinball album series, his compilation album Hey Tony, and a handful of his greatest beats for artists like Wiki, WifiGawd, Key!, & more. Come fuck with us. Pinball 2 is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from MIKE's Bandcamp . Follow Tony Seltzer on Instagram and Twitter (@tonyseltzer) and follow Tony's Brooklyn-based studio, Noc Noc Studios, on Instagram (@nocnocstudios) to book a session with the man himself. Read Lei Takahashi's review of Pinball II at Pitchfork My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is Montreal-via-Zambia rapper, producer, and composer Backxwash. We spoke about Sinners, Nigerian cinema, our respective histories with horror movies, moving from Zambia to Canada, how Cassidy mixtapes, Common’s Be, and Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor informed her rap style, the timeless appeal of Memphis rap, mixing rap with doom metal, having fun while making music about trauma, and the creative process behind her latest album Only Dust Remains. Come fuck with us. Only Dust Remains is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping off Backxwash's Bandcamp . Follow Backxwash on Instagram , Twitter , and TikTok : @backxwash Read my piece, What Sinners and Chelsea Reject Taught Me About The Power of Black Cultural Memory , for Hearing Things. My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is Vermont-via-Chicago producer, multiinstrumentalist, and record shop owner Greg Davis, also known by his beatmaking alias, Asterisk. We spoke about Perfect Days, the Star Wars franchise, particularly Revenge of the Sith , Legend of Ochi, A Clockwork Orange, falling in love with hip-hop, how studying music in college set him up to expand his vision, running a record store, bridging the gaps between the old and the new, and the creative process behind No School, his return to the world of hip-hop beatmaking. Come fuck with us. No School is currently available exclusively on Greg's Bandcamp . Find it on all other DSPs starting June 6. Follow Greg on Instagram (@gregorytylerdavis) and Twitter (@asterisk_802), follow his record store, Autumn Records, on Instagram , and check them out if you're in the Vermont area. My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
Join me and special guest billy woods on Saturday, May 10 at Loudmouth in Brooklyn, for the eighth iteration of Reel Talk, a Reel Notes movie night. We'll be screening the 1997 psychological horror film Cure and talking about his latest album, Golliwog. Tickets and more info here . If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is Baton Rouge rapper Jireh. We spoke about Richard Pryor’s Which Way Is Up, the magic of video rentals, talking leftist ideology with family, Malibu’s Most Wanted, eventually turning his own life into a movie, making the transition to becoming a full-time rapper, working his way back from a personal low point, and the creative process behind his last three projects— A Guide 2 Recognizing Your Saints, B-Sides, and last year’s Perfect Circle. Come fuck with us. Perfect Circle is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow Jireh on Instagram , Twitter , and TikTok : @jirehpc My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
Join me and special guest billy woods on Saturday, May 10 at Loudmouth in Brooklyn, for the eighth iteration of Reel Talk, a Reel Notes movie night. We'll be screening the 1997 psychological horror film Cure and talking about his latest album, Golliwog. Tickets and more info here . If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is Camden, New Jersey-based rapper Sol ChYld. We spoke about Severance, The Ring, Halloween, It, Jordan Peele’s Nope, the importance of neo-soul and gospel music, making music in her mother’s basement, the art of constructive criticism, misogynoir in the music industry, what New Jersey brings to rap culture, and the creative process behind her latest EP Bad Bitches Can Be Conscious Rappers Too. Come fuck with us. Bad Bitches Can Be Conscious Rappers Too is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow Sol ChYld on Instagram (@sol.chyld), Twitter (@thesolchyld), and TikTok (@solchyld). My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
Join me and special guest billy woods on Saturday, May 10 at Loudmouth in Brooklyn, for the eighth iteration of Reel Talk, a Reel Notes movie night. We'll be screening the 1997 psychological horror film Cure and talking about his latest album, Golliwog. Tickets and more info here . If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is New York-via-Maryland rapper, singer, producer, songwriter, journalist, and harpist Raegun. We spoke about The Pitt , The Amateur , Indian cinema, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters , All About Lily Chou-Chou, Brockhampton, coming up in the hyperpop and digicore scenes, getting into criticism and journalism, and the creative process behind several of her songs, including her 2021 EP Cherry Blossom Blooms and her latest singles on Soundcloud. Come fuck with us. Cherry Blossom Blooms is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Her latest EP, weight of my kara, is available exclusively on Soundcloud . Follow Rae on Instagram (@raealiabarbie) and Twitter (@mtfyoungboy). My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
Join me and special guest billy woods on Saturday, May 10 at Loudmouth BK for the eighth iteration of Reel Talk, a Reel Notes movie night. We'll be screening the 1997 psychological horror film Cure and talking about his latest album, Golliwog. Tickets and more info here . If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is London-via-Brooklyn rapper, producer, and model Goya Gumbani. We spoke about The Boys, Invincible, Blade, the work of Spike Lee—particularly Mo’ Better Blues —making music in Brooklyn and how his move to London amplified his creative drive, a brief tour of his discography and one-producer projects, and the creative process behind his latest album Warlord of the Weejuns, out now everywhere via Ghostly International. Come fuck with us. Warlord of the Weejuns is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from his Bandcamp . Follow Goya on Instagram ( @goya.gumbani ), Twitter ( @Goyagumbani ), and TikTok ( @goya.gumbani ). My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
Join me and special guest billy woods for the eighth iteration of Reel Talk, a Reel Notes movie night, on Saturday, May 10 at LoudmouthBK. We'll be screening the 1997 psychological horror film Cure and talking about his latest album, Golliwog. Tickets and more info here . If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is Detroit rapper, producer, engineer, and Bruiser Brigade member J.U.S. We spoke about The Electric State, the use of AI in music and film, Friday, Batman: The Animated Series , coming up in the Detroit rap scene, meeting Danny Brown and joining the Bruiser Brigade, and the creative process behind his last two projects— 3rd Shift, produced entirely by Squadda B, and Lord of the Streams part 2: Curse of the Castle. Come fuck with us. 3rd Shift and Lord of the Streams part 2 are available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping Lord of the Streams part 2 directly via Bandcamp . Follow J.U.S. on Instagram (@j_u_s_) and Twitter (@i_am_J_U_S). Read Alphonse Pierre's profile of J.U.S., which is one-third of a larger piece on the current Michigan rap landscape , at Pitchfork. My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more! My guest this week is Bronx rapper Hester Valentine. We spoke about the current state of music media and streaming, Donnie Darko, Opus, Mulholland Drive, how David Lynch and Danny Brown influenced his music, pursuing rap in his 20s, defining his style, bringing clarity to abrasive production, and the creative process behind projects like I Can’t Cut Your Hair, Valenta, and his latest, hunan slurp (your vegetables eat you). Come fuck with us. I Can't Cut Your Hair and make me, make me are available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Valenta and hunan slurp are available exclusively via Bandcamp. Read my piece How Playboi Carti and Clipping Are Channeling Rap Retrofuturism on Hearing Things. My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more! My guest this week is California-via-Massachusetts rapper, singer-songwriter, drummer, and DJ, Lyric Jones. We spoke about They Cloned Tyrone, Charlie Brown and Peanuts, The Temptations miniseries, the Ray Charles biopic Ray, working her way from Boston to Georgia to California, chasing her rap dreams, transitioning to DJing and dance music, using Even.Biz in the next stage of her career, and the creative process behind her latest singles “In Due Time” and “Better Now.” Come fuck with us. "In Due Time" is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Considering purchasing it directly via Lyric on Even.Biz . Be on the lookout for a new Lyric Jones album, coming soon. My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more! My guest this week is Virginia rapper Henny L.O. We spoke about Baki Hanma, YouTube rabbit holes, how discovering Spike Lee’s Malcolm X and Wu-Tang Clan changed his life, his history as a battle rapper, breaking the curse of bad battle rapper albums, meeting Fly Anakin and forming Mutant Academy, the response to MA’s debut album Keep Holly Alive , his chemistry with producer ewonee, and the creative process behind their collaborative EP Fougére and their upcoming full-length album The Coldest Season Ever. Come fuck with us. Fougére is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. The Coldest Season Ever is out on Friday, March 21. Follow Lowey on Instagram (@hennyldot) and Twitter (@HennyLo_). Follow ewonee on Instagram and Twitter (@ewonee_) and listen to his episode of Reel Notes (Season 4, Episode 29). My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more! My guests this week are Brooklyn-via-Oakland producer August Fanon and Connecticut producer and musician Child Actor. We spoke about The Monkey, Severance, Return to Oz, The Little Mermaid, the works of David Lynch, their respective path through the worlds of indie rap and music at large, their styles and techniques, their live beat sets, and the creative process behind their debut collaborative beat tape Here and Here. Come fuck with us. Here and Here is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping the album direct via Child Actor's Bandcamp . Follow August on Instagram and Twitter (@augustfanon) and connect with him via his Patreon . Follow Child Actor on Instagram and Twitter : @chldactr My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more! My guests this week are Detroit rapper-producer Black Milk and Detroit rapper and Bruiser Brigade member Fat Ray. We spoke about Baki Hanma, Atlanta, Shaka Zulu, Bloodsport, the art of the double feature, Menace II Society, growing up in one of the meccas of Black American music, their respective careers and their partnership, from the B.R. Gunna days up to their latest project, Food From The Gods, out now via Computer Ugly. Come fuck with us. Food From The Gods is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Bandcamp or securing a vinyl, CD, or cassette via Fat Beats while supplies last. Follow Black Milk on Instagram and Twitter (@black_milk). Follow Fat Ray on Instagram (@fatray1) and Twitter (@FatRayMotorBoy). Read my review of "Elderberry" via Hearing Things . Read Matthew Ritchie's album review via Pitchfork . My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more! My guest this week is rapper, producer, and activist Ghais Guevara. We spoke about Nickel Boys, Steve McQueen’s latest film Blitz, our conflicted feelings on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the pros and cons of South Central and State Property, navigating being labeled as a communist rapper, the intersection of music and activism, putting messages into accessible musical packages, being featured in the Super Bowl, and the creative process behind his latest album Goyard Ibn Said, out now via Fat Possum. Come fuck with us. Goyard Ibn Said is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Ghais's Bandcamp page . Follow Ghais on Instagram (@ghaisguevaraobligatory), Twitter , and TikTok (@GhaisGuevara). My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
Please consider donating to the GoFundMe for the late great Chelsea Reject . Rest in peace, Chels. If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more! My guest this week is Idaho-born rapper, producer, poet, composer, and founder of Anticon, doseone. We spoke about Severance, bonding over peak Arnold Schwarzenegger with his father, the works of David Lynch and Werner Herzog, lessons learned over his 25+ years in indie rap, his time as a composer for indie games, white rappers, and the creative process behind his latest album All Portrait, No Chorus, produced entirely by steel tipped dove and out now via Backwoodz Studioz. Come fuck with us. All Portrait, No Chorus is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping it directly via Doseone's Bandcamp . Follow Doseone on Twitter (@doseone) and Instagram (@doseoegrams) My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more! My guest this week is New York-based singer, songwriter, producer, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist YATTA. We spoke about Serafina!, Amistad, Chicago, the art of the musical, our mutual love of MTV’s TRL and BET’s 106 & Park, making the transition from filmmaking to music, the pros and cons of making your music more accessible, and the creative process behind their three musical projects: Spirit Said Yes!, Wahala, and last year’s Palm Wine, out now via PTP. Come fuck with us. Palm Wine is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping it directly via their Bandcamp page. Follow them on Instagram: @yatta.sound My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more! My guest for the season 5 premiere is New York rapper-producer miles cooke. We spoke about Silo, Memento, his love of Phillip K. Dick and all things sci-fi, his appreciation for Aesop Rock and the Def Jux era of alternative hip-hop, working through anxiety, his complicated relationship with Christianity, and the creative process behind I Used To Feel Things and his latest album c eci n’est pat un portrait, out now via Rucksack Records. Come fuck with us. c eci n'est pat un portrait is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from mile's Bandcamp page . Follow miles on Instagram , Twitter , and Bluesky : @milescooked Read my review of the portrait single "zugzwang" on Hearing Things . My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
My guest for the season 4 finale is Chicago-via-Florida rapper Blvck Svm. We spoke about Pig, The Menu, Uncut Gems, the Will Ferrell comedy Kicking and Screaming, being inspired by MF DOOM, Lil Wayne, and Valee, the first night he ever performed, the intersection of rap and food, the creative process behind his latest album michelinman, his Bvck of House video shoots, and his upcoming restaurant tour. For the last time in 2024, come fuck with us. michelinman is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow Blvck Svm on Instagram (@blvcksvm), Twitter (@fpgsvm), and TikTok (@blvcksvm), and keep an eye out for his restaurant tour, which starts in 2025. If you're interested, check out my Vinyl Me, Please Rising interview with Blvck Svm, which ran on their site this past March, and consider grabbing a copy of last year's jetsvm, produced entirely by Pilotkid. Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
My guest this week is Atlanta rapper Stahhr. We spoke about Cross, Dexter, The Wiz, E.T., a handful of her favorite movies, her experiences at MIKE’s Young World festival and Tyler, The Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw carnival, our mutual appreciation for Slick Rick and Redman, being a chameleon, her creative process, incoming new music, and, of course, all things MF DOOM. Come fuck with us. staHHr's latest album, MOTHER NATURE WITH A MOLOTOV: MOLOTOV SEASON, is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping it and other things from her Bandcamp page . Follow her on Instagram and Twitter (@stahhr) and TikTok (@stahhr786) Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
My guest this week is Atlanta producer, label owner, and manager Popstar Benny. We spoke about The Righteous Gemstones, Euphoria, Hard Candy, the filmography of Harmony Korine, our mutual love for Gorillaz, establishing Popstar FM, how his music is as hip-hop as it gets, and the creative process behind his last two albums— University! and Oasis. Come fuck with us. Oasis is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Benny's Bandcamp . Follow Benny on Instagram , Twitter , and TikTok : @popstarbenny Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
My guest this week is New York-via-Chicago producer and DJ, DJ Rude One. We spoke about Megalopolis, the works of David Cronenberg and Willem Dafoe, our love for Metrograph and the movie theater experience, his extensive history as a DJ and producer, embracing a slow production process, working a day job and making music for the passion, and the creative process behind his latest album Upper Space. Come fuck with us. Upper Space is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping the digital download or a vinyl directly from Rude One's Bandcamp page . Follow Rude One on Instagram (@djrudeone), Twitter (@djrude1), and Bluesky (@djrudeone.bsky.social). Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
My guest this week is Arizona rapper-producer kJADE. We spoke about Kai Cenat and the pros and cons of streaming culture, the Megan Thee Stallion documentary and the nature of celebrity propaganda, the magic of video stores, Undercover Brother, The Pursuit of Happyness, our favorite movie soundtracks, moving from California to Arizona, how music is meditative for her, and the five-year journey and creative process behind her debut project The Sound That Trees Make, produced entirely by Esteban . Come fuck with us. The Sound That Trees Make is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow kJADE on Instagram (@niggapasta) and Twitter (@shelivedinpeace) Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), Bluesky ( @cinemasai.bsky.social ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
My guest this week is New York rapper Jay Cinema. We spoke about Downtown 81 and our mutual love for Basquiat, where his name came from, The Lion King movies, Treasure Planet, the pros and cons of going to concerts, being inspired by Tyler, The Creator, and the creative process behind his four projects from this year: Alchemy with Chow and its recent deluxe edition, Pure Magic with Alikho Igama, and Perseverance as one-half of the duo JUNECINEMA. Come fuck with us. Alchemy and ALCDELUXE are both available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen via EveryDejaVu. Consider copping directly off Bandcamp . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Read my review of Ovrkast's last project, RESET!, over at Pitchfork . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is author, former photographer, and event coordinator T. Eric Monroe. We spoke about Family Guy, Freakazoid, and the edifying power of cartoons, his relationship with Boyz n The Hood and Menace II Society, growing up in the suburbs of New Jersey, how attending skateboarding events led him to photography, stories behind extremely rare rap photos from his collection, his career in event programming, the art of repurposing content for Instagram, and the creative process behind the collectors edition of his book Rare & Unseen Moments of 90s Hip-Hop. Come fuck with us. Rare & Unseen Moments of 90s Hip-Hop is available wherever books are sold. Consider grabbing a copy directly from T Dot's website . Follow T Dot on Instagram and Twitter : @tdoteric. Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Read my review of Ovrkast's last project, RESET!, over at Pitchfork . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is Chicago rapper, producer, promoter, and all-around creative, Rich Jones. We spoke about food blogging, Saturday Night, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ghost Dog: Way of The Samurai, watching movies not made for kids as a kid, establishing himself as a rapper, producer, and promoter, bringing Chicago with him wherever he goes, his future in music, and the creative process behind his latest project Sour Dub, produced entirely by Sinai, otherwise known as Sleep Sinatra. Come fuck with us. Sour Durb is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Rich's Bandcamp . Follow Rich on Instagram (@richjones_music) and Twitter (@jonessoruthless). Follow Sleep on Instagram (@sleepsinatra) and Twitter (@SleepSinai). Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Read my review of Ovrkast's last project, RESET!, over at Pitchfork . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guests this week are California rapper-producers Blu & Exile. We spoke about recent hits like Everything Everywhere All At Once and Poor Things, hip-hop cinematic classics like Krush Groove, Breakin’, and Wild Style, how DMX and Common inspired Blu to rap, a look back at Blu’s Her Favorite Colo(u)r and Exile’s work on Mobb Deep’s “Pearly Gates,” the Blu Note edition of their 2007 classic Below The Heavens, and the creative process behind their latest album Love (the) Ominous World. Come fuck with us. Love (the) Ominous World is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from their Bandcamp . Follow Blu on Instagram (@bluherfavcolor) and Twitter (@HerFavColor), Exile on Instagram (@ExileRadio), and Dirty Science Records on Instagram (@thedirtyscience) and Twitter (@dirtyscience). Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Read my review of Ovrkast's last project, RESET!, over at Pitchfork . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
My guest this week is California rapper-producer Ovrkast. We spoke about freestyling on Sway In The Morning, Blink Twice, Shark Tale, Fruitvale Station and the work of Ryan Coogler, the beauty of Oakland slang, how his discography is its own anthology series, the diversity of California rap, and the creative process behind his latest project KAST GOT WINGS, produced in tandem with Texas producer Cardo Got Wings. Come fuck with us. If you’re in the New York area on Thursday, October 17, pull up to the Kast Got Wings album listening event at IIIXL Studio at 1329 Willoughby Ave in Brooklyn to hear the project and stick around for a brief interview and Q&A, hosted by me. it's a free event, so RSVP here. Kast Got Wings is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow Ovrkast. on Instagram (@ovrkast), Twitter (@ovrkast), and TikTok (@ovrkast_). Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Read my review of Ovrkast's last project, RESET!, over at Pitchfork . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
My guest this week is New Jersey rapper Wiseboy Jeremy. We spoke about Third World Cop, The Substance, reading, bootleg DVDs, the magic of renting movies and games, growing up with rap, R&B, and reggae, getting over his elitist hip-hop phase, early Soundcloud songs and motivations, and the creative process behind several of his projects, most notably last month’s Pumpkin Seeds, produced entirely by Kirti Pandey. Come fuck with us. Pumpkin Seeds is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Jeremy's Bandcamp page . Follow Jeremy on Instagram , Twitter , and TikTok : @wiseboyjeremy Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is Ohio rapper-producer and one-fifth of The Karma Kids, Lt Headtrip. We spoke about the filmographies of Davids Fincher and Lynch, lucid dreaming, the magic of Ol’ Dirty Bastard, studying film in college, founding and preserving the Karma Kids, making concept records vs. rapping from the heart, why depression doesn’t lead to great art, and the creative process behind his latest album EMBLEMS, produced entirely by Bloodmoney Perez. Come fuck with us. EMBLEMS is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from the Karma Kids' Bandcamp . Follow Headtrip on Instagram and Twitter : @ltheadtrip. If you're in the Brooklyn area on Thursday, October 3rd, catch Headtrip performing at Another Rap Show at The Secret Pour. Show starts at 8:30, tickets are $10 at the door. Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is New York singer-songwriter Yolanda Watson. We spoke about Good Times, the Friday series, the work of Denzel Washington, Yolanda’s current favorite books, leaving the world of publishing to pursue music, the difference between recording a song and playing it live, bringing disparate influences together to create with producer BeatsGotDan, singing background vocals for Armand Hammer’s We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, and the creative process behind their debut EP Soda and their latest single “Caca” . Come fuck with us. Soda is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping it, "Caca," and all their other music directly from their Bandcamp . Follow Yolanda on Instagram and Twitter : @_y0lly_. Be on the lookout for new music coming soon. Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is Baltimore rapper John Wells. We spoke about The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and the Bel-Air spinoff , The Lion King, the pros and cons of drive-in movie theaters, the Wayans family, putting on for Baltimore, the video for his single “No Drugs In Heaven,” making his late father proud, and the creative process behind his upcoming project whole world burnin’ down. Come fuck with us. whole world burnin' down will be available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen on Friday, September 20. If you're in the Baltimore area that night, celebrate the album release by pulling up to Live 4Ever 2 at the Metro Baltimore--doors at 7PM, show starts at 8. Tickets are $17.51 and you can cop tickets here . Follow John Wells on Instagram (@lorluck), Twitter (@johnwells__), and TikTok (@johnwells__) Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is New Jersey rapper and co-host of Strangers Live, ‘89 The Brainchild. We spoke about Deadpool & Wolverine, Elektra, 2000s-era Marvel movies, Purple Rain, why people don’t love musicals anymore, mixtape culture, the similarities between the New York and New Jersey indie music scenes, and the creative process behind his latest project Night Lives, out now via Fused Arrow Records. Come fuck with us. Night Lives is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from '89's Bandcamp . Follow '89 on Instagram (@89aintonthegram) and Twitter (@89thebrainchild) and listen to Strangers Live! every other Saturday from 12-2PM EST on Newtown Radio . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is New York producer, engineer, and one-ninth of Mutant Academy, ewonee. We spoke about The Wayans Bros, King of The Hill , Ray, The Pianist, our respective G-Unit and Dipset phases, having hip-hop parents, the creative process behind beat tapes like his Aux Tapes series and ‘73, and some words about the upcoming Mutant Academy album Keep Holly Alive. Come fuck with us. ewonee's latest solo project, Aux Tapes Vol. 6, is available now wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram (@ewonee_) and check out his personal website for tapes, vinyl, drumkits, and all other things ewonee. Keep Holly Alive will be available everywhere sometime in late September. Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guests this week are rapper Alaska and producer-engineer steel tipped dove. We spoke about Longlegs, Kinds of Kindness, Halloween, several of our favorite horror movies, growing up as music encyclopedias, how he and dove met and gel’d as a duo, growing old in hip-hop, and the creative process behind their two projects—2023’s The Structural Dynamics of Flow and this year’s Reverberations of A Dead Man’s Ego. Come fuck with us. Reverberations of A Dead Man’s Ego is available exclusively on Bandcamp ...for now. Follow Alaska on Twitter (@Alaska_Atoms). Follow steel tipped dove on Instagram and Twitter : @steeltippeddove. Follow Fused Arrow Records on Instagram, Twitter , and Bandcamp . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is Illinois-born singer, rapper, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Phoelix. We spoke about Supacell, Deadpool & Wolverine, the pros and cons of 4DX, Blazing Saddles, singing and playing instruments in church, how working on Noname’s “Shadow Man” boosted his self-confidence, working with partner Kari Faux, music as a tool for centering yourself, and the creative process behind his EPs Calibrate and Traffic, the latter of which drops on Wednesday, September 4. Come fuck with us. Traffic will be available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen on Wednesday, September 4. Follow Phoelix on Instagram (@phoelix), Twitter (@phoelix_), and TikTok (@phoelix630) Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this time is North Carolina MAVI. We spoke about the themes, pros, and cons of the 1992 horror classic Candyman, the importance of love, the creative process behind his great new album shadowbox, and a few tour stories from special guest Ovrkast. Come fuck with us. shadowbox is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow MAVI on Instagram and Twitter (@mavi4mayor) and TikTok (@maviiformayor) Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is Rhode Island producer, composer, and MPC expert, araabMUZIK. We spoke about the scores for Jaws, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, and Scarface, pioneering finger-drumming on the MPC, transitioning from producing for rap icons like Cam’ron, Styles P, and Jay Electronica to embracing trance and dance music, the pros and cons of scoring a film for the first time, and the creative process behind composing the music for Harmony Korine’s surrealist action movie AGGRO DR1FT. Come fuck with us. The AGGRO DR1FT score is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow araabMUZIK on Instagram and Twitter (@araabMUZIK) Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
If you're in the Brooklyn area, I'll be hosting the fourth Reel Talk movie night at LoudmouthBK tomorrow, Thursday, August 8 (sorry for the short notice). Our guest this time is North Carolina rapper MAVI, and we'll be watching the 1992 horror classic Candyman , followed by a short interview and Q&A. Doors at 6, film starts at 7:15-ish. Advance tickets are $5 online via Partiful, $10 at the door. RSVP/purchase here. Hope to see y'all there! My guest this week is Queens rapper, producer, engineer, and founder of Proper Spiritual Growth, Cise Greeny. We spoke about The Blacklist , the MCU, X-Men ‘97, Prison Song, Blue Hill Avenue, the legacies of Sean Price and Roc Marciano, how he went from doing graffiti to rapping to producing/engineering, how mixing and mastering for others helps makes his work better, and the creative process behind his excellent project Master Sword. Come fuck with us. Master Sword is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Greeny's Bandcamp page . Keep an eye out for its sequel, 'A Link To The Past', dropping later this month. Follow Cise Greeny on Instagram (@cise.greeny) and keep up with all things PSG on Instagram (@properspiritualgrowth) and Bandcamp . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is New Orleans rapper Countess. We spoke about House of The Dragon, Downton Abbey, the Lupin The 3rd series, Beasts of The Southern Wild, combining her love of pop culture with her love of music, the art of archiving and discovery, playing different characters in her music, and the creative processes behind her latest EP Con Art. Come fuck with us. Con Art is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow Countess on Instagram (@countin.up) and Twitter (@countinnup) Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is New York journalist, filmmaker, and creator of Hoodwear Diaries, Aishamanne. We spoke about season 3 of FX’s The Bear, Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness, the allure of horror movies, being inspired to direct by Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight and Childish Gambino’s Awaken, My Love, the intersection of film, hip-hop, and fashion, how Black cultural influence will outlast us all, and the creative process behind—and gradual expansion of—her Hoodwear Diaries YouTube channel and Instagram pages. Come fuck with us. Subscribe to Hoodwear Diaries on YouTube and follow Hoodwear Diaries (@hoodweardiaries) and Aishamanne herself (@aishamoney) on Instagram. Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is Chicago rapper, producer, label head, and MIT professor, Lupe Fiasco. We spoke about True Detective, being inspired by his father’s record and film collections, practicing martial arts and African drumming, references and concepts in his music, creating across eras, the art and pros and cons of criticism, his bond with producer Soundtrakk, and the creative process behind his years-in-the-making latest album, the Amy Winehouse-inspired Samurai. Come fuck with us. Samurai is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow Lupe on Instagram and Twitter: @LupeFiasco I wrote the liner notes for Vinyl Me Please's recent wax reissue of Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor. If you're interested in reading, buy a copy on their site. Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green. Support the show…
My guest this week is Michigan rapper and co-host of The SwordCast, Noveliss. We spoke about Aliens, The Power Rangers Movie, Zatoichi and his other favorite samurai films, X-Men 97, the future of the MCU, how both rap and martial arts helped him appreciate discipline, coaching his son’s UAA team, how producer Hir-O convinced him to not quit rapping, and the creative process behind their latest album Cyberpunk Rhapsody. Come fuck with us. Cyberpunk Rhapsody is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping it directly from Noveliss's Bandcamp . Follow Noveliss on Instagram (@novelisscsf) and Twitter ( @TheNoveliss ). Follow Hir-O on Instagram (@HiroBeats313) and Twitter (@HiroBeats). Check out The SwordCast wherever you listen to podcasts. My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
If you wanna hear me in the studio with artists more often, book yourself a podcast, DJ, or studio session at Pirate using my code DYLAN534686, and you and I will both receive a free $25 credit to our accounts. Try it out today! My guests this week are Connecticut-via-New York rapper-producer Polo Perks, Atlanta producer-rapper FearDorian, and Milwaukee rapper AyooLii. We spoke about their recent show at Substance skatepark in Brooklyn, movies like Elephant, WALL-E, New Jack City, Don’t Be a Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood, several Disney Channel Original movies, the power of knowing the history of your influences, the pros and cons of a press run, how they first met and came together as a trio, blending Milwaukee lowend and drill, and the creative process—and plenty of stories—behind their latest project A Dog’s Chance. Come fuck with us. A Dog's Chance is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow Lii, Dorian, and Polo on Instagram ( @lilpolotee , @feardorian , @brudderman_official1 ), Twitter ( @poloperks , @1feardorian , @1brudderman ), and TikTok ( @poloperks , @feardorian1 , @1ayoolii ). My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is New York rapper-producer S!lence. We spoke about Scavengers Reign, Wild Wild West, Silence of The Lambs, the filmography of Kevin Smith, the musicality of Biggie’s Ready II Die, how his friends and his photography inspire his music, being a member of Tase Grip, and the creative process behind several of his projects, including his latest, AGUADURA. Come fuck with us. AGUADURA is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping it directly from Bandcamp or the Break All Records website . Follow S!lence on Instagram and Twitter : @saintlysilence My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is California journalist and founder of Lucky Seven Magazine, Nia Coats. We spoke about The Iron Claw, I Saw The TV Glow, the Friday series, The Princess Diaries, being from the east coast and watching west coast movies, moving from starting her own blog to starting Lucky Seven magazine, the stories behind her favorite articles and covers, the future of music journalism, and the creative process behind bringing a magazine to life. Come fuck with us. Issue 4 of Lucky Seven, featuring Navy Blue and Kari Faux, is available now. Purchase it and any of the back issues on their site . Follow Nia on Instagram and Twitter : @grabacoat My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is rapper and one-fifth of the collective No Label, Yo OG. We spoke about Buddhism and spirituality, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Belly, Dope, the ritual of going to the movies, juggling different projects, coming up listening to And1 mixtapes and Joey Bada$$, how he came to make music and help form No Label, and the creative process behind his projects Burgundy— produced entirely by Buddy—and this year’s This Too Shall Pass. Come fuck with us. This Too Shall Pass is available now wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping the album on Bandcamp , where it comes with a handful of exclusive bonus tracks. Follow OG on Instagram (@supreme47g) and keep up with No Label on IG and TikTok: @nolabelent My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is Maryland-based rapper Foggieraw. We spoke about the Planet of the Apes movies, Michael Jackson music videos, Kill Bill and the films of Quentin Tarantino, the music of DMX, Andre 3000, and Lupe Fiasco, figuring out his sound in college and turning rap into a career, and the creative process behind his music videos, his breakout single “Psalm 62,” and his latest single “Stay Awhile” with Ari Lennox. Come fuck with us. "Stay Awhile" is available now wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Keep an eye out for new music coming soon. Follow Foggieraw on Instagram , Twitter , & TikTok : @foggieraw. My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is Queens rapper-producer-engineer Wavy Bagels. We spoke about Monkey Man , The Creator, Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit, Snow Day, Power Rangers, how his work as a behind-the-scenes sound man for movies informs his work as a rapper, producer, and engineer, how he moved from just producing and engineering to rapping, and the creative process behind a handful of projects, most notably his latest album A Carfull, produced entirely by Driveby. Come fuck with us. A Carfull is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping it directly from Bagels' Bandcamp or from the Break All Records website. Follow Bagels on Instagram and Twitter : @wavy_bagels My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is Peckham, London-based rapper-producer Jadasea. We spoke about the importance of categorizing projects, his love for sci-fi and anime, hooligan films, American Gangster, Interstellar, The Matrix and Animatrix, starting his career with King Krule, balancing being prolific with taking his time, approaching 30 as a rapper, joining up with MIKE and 10k, and the creative process behind his latest project Too Many Tears. Come fuck with us. Too Many Tears is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly off Jada's Bandcamp . Follow Jadasea on Instagram (@jadase15) and Twitter (@jadasea1). Read my review of Jadasea and New York producer Laron's The Corner: Vol. 1 on Pitchfork . My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guests this week are California producer klwn cat and New York rapper Sunmundi. We spoke about Poor Things, Oppenheimer, Ponyo and the greater Studio Ghibli filmography, Max Keeble’s Big Move, the influence of Earl Sweatshirt, Navy Blue, Dilla, and Ka, finding their creative voices, coming together, bending to suit each other’s styles, and the creative process beind their debut collaborative album Lived and Born. Come fuck with us. Lived and Born is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly via klwn cat's Bandcamp . Follow klwn cat on Instagram and Twitter (@klwncat) and Sunmundi on Instagram (@sunmundimusic) and Twitter (@sunmundi) Read my review of Lived and Born on Pitchfork . My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is New York producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Anysia Kym. We spoke about Poor Things , bonding with her brother over the Barbie movie, the hype of Timothee Chalamet, Child’s Play, local movie theaters, growing up on the music of Raven-Symone and Ty Dolla $ign, transitioning from playing the drums to producing drum and bass, the idea of genre, working with MIKE and 10k, and the creative process behind her latest project Truest. Come fuck with us. Truest is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping via her Bandcamp . Follow Anysia on Instagram (@ok.nys) and Twitter (@ok_nys). My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is New Orleans-via-Brooklyn rapper Cavalier. We spoke about the French film Baise-moi, Monkey Man , The Last Dragon, DVD collections, the filmography of Spike Lee, Fresh, 90s urban dramas, growing up as a first-generation Caribbean-American, moving from New York to New Orleans, the art of crafting albums, the value of music, his come up with Quelle Chris, and the creative process behind his latest project Different Type Time, out now via Backwoodz Studioz. Come fuck with us. Different Type Time is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping the album directly via Bandcamp . Follow Cavalier on Instagram and Twitter (@Cavwins) and consider signing up for his newsletter . My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is New Jersey rapper, poet, producer, and singer MoRuf. We spoke about Top Boy, I May Destroy You, Higher Learning, the filmography of Spike Lee, going from battle rapping and poetry to pursuing music full-time, why he waited a decade to fully commit to making music his career, the power of community building, and the creative process behind his latest project Tiny Mic Raps Vol. 1. Come fuck with us. Tiny Mic Raps Vol. 1 is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow MoRuf on Instagram and Twitter (@Moruf88). My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today starting at $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , The Zakat Foundation , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guests this week are New Jersey-via-Massachusetts rapper-producer NAHreally and Dublin producer-engineer The Expert. We spoke about Netflix reality shows, Severance, Tropic Thunder, Silo, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, He Got Game, Above The Rim, the legacy of Stones Throw and Madvillainy, their respective journeys through rap, joining forces creatively, and the creative process behind their debut collaborative album BLIP, out now via Rucksack Records. Come fuck with us. BLIP is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping via The Expert's Bandcamp page . Follow NAHreally on Instagram and Twitter : @_nahreally_. Follow The Expert on Instagram and Twitter (@itstheexpert) and consider subscribing to EXcavations, his Substack newsletter . My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today for as little as $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , Medical Aid for Palestinians , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is Houston rapper jerrard, fka Danny Watts. We spoke about Dune Part 2, finding beats on YouTube and Twitch streams, the Look Who’s Talking series, Baby’s Day Out, Powder, downloading music on Limewire, coming up on east coast hip-hop, quitting his job to work with California rapper-producer Jonwayne, and the journey from his debut album Black Boy Meets World to adopting the name jerrard and releasing his next project here’s what i been doin. Come fuck with us. here's what i been doin is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping it directly from jerrard's Bandcamp . Follow him on Twitter (@midnamejerrard) and Instagram (@middlenamejerrard) Join the Reel Notes Patreon today for as little as $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon here . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , Medical Aid for Palestinians , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guests this week are New Jersey rapper OneShotOnce and producer Driveby. We spoke about Quiet On Set, Loudermilk, Dune 2, Mystic River, Love Lies Bleeding, Bound, their respective come-ups in Jersey, what they have to offer to the Jersey scene and rap at large, the beginning of their creative partnership, and the process behind their two projects, 4WD and 6WD. Come fuck with us. 6WD is available now wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen via Fused Arrow Records. Consider copping the digital album from OSO's Bandcamp or physical cassettes from the Fused Arrow website . Follow OneShotOnce on Instagram and Twitter : @oneshotonce. Follow Driveby on Instagram and Twitter : @driveby_. Follow Fused Arrow on Instagram and Twitter : @fusedarrow. Join the Reel Notes Patreon today for as little as $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon here . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , Medical Aid for Palestinians , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is Florida-based vlogger, critic, and interviewer, Eric The Young Gawd. We spoke about May December, Joker, Drumline, AirPod conspiracy theories, his interview style, Snow on tha Bluff, our respective relationships with Boosie Badazz, Florida and New Orleans rap, some of Eric’s best and funniest interviews, and his interest in the intersection between journalism and psychology. Come fuck with us. Subscribe to Eric's YouTube channel and follow him on Instagram @youaintpackinmeat Join the Reel Notes Patreon today for as little as $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon here . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , Medical Aid for Palestinians , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is Montreal rapper Chung. We spoke about Killers of The Flower Moon, Titanic, Netflix’s Griselda, our respective favorite R&B and hip-hop albums growing up, the pros and cons of coming up in the Montreal hip-hop scene, working with producers Nicholas Craven and Cotola, and the creative process behind her three latest projects—2022’s See You, When I C U, and both entries in she and Cotola’s Chung Shui series. Come fuck with us. Chung Shui 2 is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping it and other music directly from Chung's Bandcamp page . Follow Chung on Instagram (@ChungIsChung) and Twitter (@ChungIsChung_) Join the Reel Notes Patreon today for as little as $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon here . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , Medical Aid for Palestinians , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is New York rapper-producer shemar. We spoke about Mo’ Better Blue and the films of Spike Lee, Shark Boy & Lavagirl, Spy Kids, and the films of Robert Rodriguez, listening to Kendrick, Tyler, The Creator, and Earl Sweatshirt growing up, transitioning from poetry and beatmaking to rapping, labels and boxes within underground hip-hop, and the creative process behind his two latest projects— obtuse ways to say that i love you and the Child Actor-produced sunscreen. Come fuck with us obtuse ways to say that i love you and sunscreen are both available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping both directly from shemar's Bandcamp . Follow shemar on Instagram ( @shemar.alexander ) and Twitter ( @shemar_aa ). Join the Reel Notes Patreon today for as little as $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon here . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , Medical Aid for Palestinians , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is New York rapper-producer LIFEOFTHOM. We spoke about Poor Things, WALL-E, Inception, his love for anime, particularly the show Bakuman, environmental conservation, the versatility of his discography, and the concept and creative process behind his projects Floor 11 and Room 44. Come fuck with us. Floor 11 and Room 44 are available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow him on Instagram , Twitter , and TikTok : @lifeofthom Join the Reel Notes Patreon today for as little as $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book ever, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is out on March 8, 2024, via 4PM Publishing. Pre-order a digital copy on Amazon here . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, the Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , Medical Aid for Palestinians , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is California rapper-producer BbyAfricka. We spoke about Saltburn, Joker, A Clockwork Orange, how she transitioned from producing to rapping, the difference between being funny and being real, how her battle with Stevens-Johnson syndrome changed the way she makes music, and the creative process behind her last two albums—2022’s The Art of Geekin’ and this year’s The Rapture. Come fuck with us. The Art of Geekin' and The Rapture are both available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow BbyAfricka on Instagram and TikTok (@bbyafricka) and Twitter (@jasminearmanii) Join the Reel Notes Patreon today for as little as $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! My first book ever, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is out on March 8, 2024, via 4PM Publishing. Pre-order a digital copy on Amazon here . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, the Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , Medical Aid for Palestinians , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest for the season four premiere is Brooklyn rapper and model Ms. Boogie. We spoke about Prison Song , City of God, voyeurism and representation in media, finding herself in the music of Missy Elliott, Lil Kim, and Sisqo, coming out as a woman in Paper Magazine and transitioning in 2018, the importance of being queer, particularly trans, in rap and being seen in the right way, and the creative process behind her debut album The Breakdown. Come fuck with us. Join the Reel Notes Patreon today for as little as $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive interviews and reviews, and more! My first book ever, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is out on March 8, 2024, via 4PM Publishing. Pre-order a digital copy on Amazon here . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, the Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , Medical Aid for Palestinians , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! The Breakdown is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow Ms. Boogie on Instagram and Twitter : @dearmsboogie Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest for the season 3 finale is Los Angeles rapper Domo Genesis. We spoke about Leave The World Behind, our mutual love of horror movies, The Lion King, John Q, his start as a founding member of Odd Future, how his Alchemist tape No Idols was ahead of its time, maintaining consistency in his music over a decade, becoming a big brother to the Mutant Academy collective, and the creative process behind What You Don’t Get?!, produced entirely by Graymatter. What You Don't Get?! is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow Domo Genesis on Instagram ( @domogenesis ) and Twitter ( @DamierGenesis ) My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today for as little as $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , Medical Aid for Palestinians , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is New York rapper Lord Sko. We spoke about Violent Night, The Big Lebowski, King of New York, New York pizza, food in LA, bridging age and subgenre gaps in rap music, taking his first two projects off the internet, his general creative process, and the making of his breakout projects—2022’s Museum and this year’s United Palace. United Palace is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow Lord Sko on Instagram (@lordsko) and Tik Tok (@lordsko_) Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, the Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Visit Dreadsock.com and use promo code "CINEMASAI" for 10% off your first order! Support the show…
My guest this week is North Carolina-based rapper, producer, and head of the I’ll Never Die collective, JUNE! We spoke about Loki season 2, the highs and lows of the MCU, Friday, Hitch, Soul Food, Lucy, M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable, Split, and Glass, Andre 3000’s ambient album, the impact of Earl Sweatshirt’s Some Rap Songs , the history of I N D, JUNE!’s viral remixes and sample flips, working through struggle, and the creative process behind a handful of their projects, including their latest, What A Life. Follow JUNE! on Instagram , Twitter , and TikTok : @juneayth. If you can spare, please donate to their GoFundMe , Cash App ($JUNEAYTH), or Venmo (@ShawnMayIND). Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, the Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Visit Dreadsock.com and use promo code "CINEMASAI" for 10% off your first order! What A Life is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping it directly from Bandcamp . Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is New Jersey rapper, producer, and photographer Da$h. We spoke about being a father, working with ANKHLEJOHN and Mac Miller, Beau Is Afraid, Killers of The Flower Moon, risk-averse Hollywood studios, tour stories, dealing with addiction, why he’s particularly inspired by the late actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman, embracing photography, physical media, and the creative process behind his music, especially his latest album Skrewface 2. Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, the Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Visit Dreadsock.com and use promo code "CINEMASAI" for 10% off your first order! Skrewface 2 is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow Da$h on Instagram and Twitter : @HEIRDASH Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is New York rapper-producer and instrumentalist Gabe ‘Nandez. We spoke about Pusher, his relationship with the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, the pros and cons of modern-day cinema, the art and value of music videos, how being multi-lingual influences his writing style, making his 2019 album Diplomacy during one of the toughest moments of his life, and the creative process behind his latest project H. T. III, produced entirely by Argov. If you're in the New York area, come to the first edition of Reel Talk, a Reel Notes movie night on Sunday, December 3 at Loudmouth BK featuring Florida rapper-producer Niontay. Tay and I will be screening the 1975 cult classic Coonskin followed by an interview/Q&A after. $13 admission. Buy tickets here . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, the Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Visit Dreadsock.com and use promo code "CINEMASAI" for 10% off your first order! H. T. III is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Bandcamp . Follow Gabe on Instagram ( @champiyawn ) and Twitter ( @GabeNandez ) Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is California rapper and producer Maxo, live from the Abrons Arts Center in Manhattan. We spoke about Being John Malkovitch, 3 Ninjas, Steel , white guilt movies, why Tubi is the best streaming service, the process behind a handful of his music videos, whether he experiences fear while making music, and the creative process behind Lil Big Man, Even God Has A Sense Of Humor, and Debbie’s Son. If you're in the New York area, come to the first edition of Reel Talk, a Reel Notes movie night on Sunday, December 3 at Loudmouth BK featuring Florida rapper-producer Niontay. Tay and I will be screening a movie of his choice (film tba) followed by an interview/Q&A after. $13 admission. Buy tickets here . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, the Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Visit the websites for the Abrons Arts Center , Loudmouth BK , and Every DejaVu . Visit Dreadsock.com and use promo code "CINEMASAI" for 10% off your first order! Even God Has A Sense Of Humor and Debbie’s Son are both available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow Maxo on Instagram ( @rundatback ) and Twitter ( @rundatbacc ) Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is Ohio-based rapper and producer Kipp Stone. We spoke about Where The Wild Things Are , the Transformers franchise, Soul, Little Bear, being inspired by his surroundings, how long it took him to find his musical style, joining up with, leaving, and re-joining Closed Sessions, the art of saying more with less words, and the creative process behind his latest album 66689 Blvd Prequel. Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, the Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Visit Dreadsock.com and use promo code "CINEMASAI" for 10% off your first order! 66689 Blvd Prequel is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping it directly from Bandcamp . Follow Kipp on Instagram and Twitter : @kipp_stone Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is Ishmael Butler, one-third of Digable Planets and the center of Shabazz Palaces. We spoke about the Amazon Prime original series Them, Afrosurrealism, Superfly, the role blaxploitation soundtracks played in the early days of sampling, his love for horror movies, transitioning from Digable Planets and Cherrywine to Shabazz Palaces, the group’s creative process, his views on rap culture 50 years in, and the process behind Shabazz Palaces’ latest project Robed In Rareness. Robed In Rareness is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping from Bandcamp . Follow Shabazz Palaces on Instagram and Twitter : @shabazzpalaces My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today for as little as $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , Medical Aid for Palestinians , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is Massachusetts-based rapper, producer, streamer, and toymaker Pink Navel. We spoke about our favorite reality TV, the pros and cons of internet culture, their relationship to the Star Wars movies and the filmography of Kevin Smith, forging their own path as Pink Navel, connecting with R.A.P. Ferreira and Ruby Yacht, the creative process behind How To Capture Playful, their collaborative album with Kenny Segal, and, of course, all things video games. How To Capture Playful is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping the digital or physical versions of the album on Bandcamp. Follow Pink Navel on Instagram ( @dotdev_ ), Twitter ( @pinknavelonline ), and TikTok ( @noiddominos ) My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon . Join the Reel Notes Patreon today for as little as $5/month to get early access to episodes, our Discord server, exclusive bonus interviews and reviews, and more! Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund , The Palestinian Youth Movement , Medical Aid for Palestinians , HealAfrica , FreeTigray , and/or Hope For Haiti . For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday! Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is Roper, one-half of the New Jersey-based production duo Roper Williams. We spoke about the Western film Bone Tomahawk, the times we’ve walked out of movies, cult horror films like Await Further Instructions, Chopping Mall, and Skinamarink, the jazz anime Blue Giant, how he and his partner Sanz first met, came up with their name, and their creative process, highlight a handful of their standout beats, how producers are gaining more recognition in the indie scene, and break down the process behind their latest project Infinite Victory Loop, featuring Fatboi Sharif, YL, AKAI SOLO, and Pootie. Reel Notes stands in solidarity with Palestine and the people of Gaza. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund or to Islamic Relief USA . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with SAG-AFTA as they strike for better working conditions and pay for the people who power the movies and TV we love. Please consider supporting them directly by donating to the Entertainment Community Fund or The Snacklist mutual aid fund to get food and drink to strikers across Los Angeles. Visit Dreadsock.com and use promo code "CINEMASAI" for 10% off your first order! Infinite Victory Loop is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Bandcamp . Follow Roper Williams on Instagram and Twitter : @roper_williams Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is California rapper, producer, DJ, and one-half of the group KWAMZAY, ZAYALLCAPS. We spoke about size 8 and up fitted hats, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Space Jam, romantic comedies, Like Mike, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the legacy of Friday, how rap cured his loneliness, going from producing to embracing rapping, Soundcloud remix and mash-up culture, forming KWAMZAY with Kwame Adu, and the creative process behind his debut album BALLING OUT OF SPITE. Reel Notes stands in solidarity with Palestine and the people of Gaza. Please consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund or to Islamic Relief USA . Reel Notes stands in solidarity with SAG-AFTA as they strike for better working conditions and better pay for the people who power the movies and TV we love. Please consider supporting them directly by donating to the Entertainment Community Fund or The Snacklist mutual aid fund to get food and drink to strikers across Los Angeles. Visit Dreadsock.com and use promo code "CINEMASAI" for 10% off your first order! BALLING OUT OF SPITE is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Check out ZAY's backlog of music on Soundcloud . Follow ZAY on Instagram , Twitter , and TikTok : @zayallcaps Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is New Jersey-based singer, songwriter, and producer Fielded. We spoke about No One Will Save You, Silence of The Lambs, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, the work of Ari Aster and Todd Solondz, why we’re attracted to dark and disturbing movies, their journey from a musical family to creating the Fielded project, linking with Backwoodz Studioz, and the creative process behind their latest album Plus One. Reel Notes stands in solidarity with SAG-AFTA as they strike for better working conditions and better pay for the people who power the movies and TV we love. Please consider supporting them directly by donating to the Entertainment Community Fund or The Snacklist mutual aid fund to get food and drink to strikers across Los Angeles. Visit Dreadsock.com and use promo code "CINEMASAI" for 10% off your first order! Plus One is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Fielded's Bandcamp . Follow them on Instagram and Twitter (@_fielded_) Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is Boston rapper, producer, and saxophonist DiZ. We spoke about The Other Black Woman, Natural Born Killers, Balto, Carmen: A Hip-Hopera, his early beginnings as a musician, figuring out his sound, linking with Ovrkast, juggling a burgeoning music career while studying at Berklee, constantly navigating the line between honesty and oversharing in his writing, and the creative process behind several projects, including his breakout Black Water, ULTRA.VIOLET, and this year’s the way forward is not the way home. Reel Notes stands in solidarity with SAG-AFTA as they strike for better working conditions and better pay for the people who power the movies and TV we love. Please consider supporting them directly by donating to the Entertainment Community Fund or The Snacklist mutual aid fund to get food and drink to strikers across Los Angeles. Visit Dreadsock.com and use promo code "CINEMASAI" for 10% off your first order! the way forward is not the way home is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping from Bandcamp to directly support DiZ. Follow DiZ on Instagram ( @diz.47 ), Twitter ( @DizDaDelinQuent ), and TikTok ( @DizDaDelinquent ) Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is New York-via-Maine photographer, director, and designer Alexander Richter. We spoke about Top Boy, the James Bond series, how both his parents inspired his early love for film and photography, his career as a music photographer, including stories shooting Sean Price’s Jesus Price album cover and a 50 Cent cover story, his extensive history with billy woods and Backwoodz Studioz, and the creative process behind Dark Brother Rise, his 2020 short film about the eponymous hip-hop photographer from Queensbridge. Reel Notes stands in solidarity with SAG-AFTA as they strike for better working conditions and better pay for the people who power the movies and TV we love. Please consider supporting them directly by donating to the Entertainment Community Fund or The Snacklist mutual aid fund to get food and drink to strikers across Los Angeles. Visit Dreadsock.com and use promo code "CINEMASAI" for 10% off your first order! Check out Richter's portfolio here and watch the Dark Brother Rise documentary here . Read my piece "How billy woods' Backwoodz Studioz Became New York's Best Underground Rap Label" for Pitchfork here Follow Richter on Instagram ( @alexanderrichter ) and Twitter ( @AlexandeRichter ) Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is New York rapper, poet, performance artist, and member of the band Poetic Thrust, Nakama. We spoke about They Cloned Tyrone, our favorite recent anime, The Matrix, Pan’s Labyrinth, our feelings on the series finale of Atlanta, his rap origin story, forming Poetic Thrust, his work on the multimedia piece Places, and the creative process behind a handful of projects, including human_error and Kindling. Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the WGA and SAG-AFTA as they strike for better working conditions and better pay for the people who power the movies and TV we love. Please consider supporting them directly by donating to the Entertainment Community Fund or The Snacklist mutual aid fund to get food and drink to strikers across Los Angeles. Visit Dreadsock.com and use promo code "CINEMASAI" for 10% off your first order! Kindling and human_error are both available exclusively through Nakama's Bandcamp . Follow Nakama on Instagram ( @nakama.wtf ) and Twitter ( @nakama_wtf ) Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is California-based journalist, artist manager, A&R, curator, chef, and musician Walasia Shabazz. We spoke about Kelis’ Cooking with Cannabis, growing up around Hollywood royalty, her family’s roots in film and music, her love for Star Wars and Almost Famous, cheffing for your favorite rappers, her journey through the worlds of music journalism and music management, her relationship with the late MF DOOM, the art of service, and more stories and anecdotes than I can count. Tap in with all of her work at Drums & Ammo , including her new music and sex column Talk Like Sex , and her Medium page . Follow Walasia on Instagram ( @noorscience ) and Twitter ( @WALASIA ) Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
My guest this week is New York rapper Yoh. We spoke about the Portugese show Sintonia, City of God, Bottoms, our mutual love for anime and Hayao Miyazaki, the pros and cons of listing your favorite music or movies, his comeup as a solo act and his role in the band Poetic Thrust, linking with producer and musician CARRTOONS, and the creative process behind his 2016 solo project Tales Over Tea and Mirrors, his 2022 collab with CARRTOONS. Reel Notes stands in solidarity with the WGA and SAG-AFTA as they strike for better working conditions and better pay for the people who power the movies and TV we love. Please consider supporting them directly by donating to the Entertainment Community Fund or The Snacklist mutual aid fund to get food and drink to strikers across Los Angeles. Visit Dreadsock.com and use promo code "CINEMASAI" for 10% off your first order! Mirrors is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping it from Bandcamp . Follow Yoh on Instagram ( @yoh.holo ) and Twitter ( @yoh_holo ) Follow me on Instagram ( @cinemasai ), Twitter ( @CineMasai_ ), TikTok ( @cinemasai ), and Letterboxd ( @CineMasai ) Support the show…
مرحبًا بك في مشغل أف ام!
يقوم برنامج مشغل أف أم بمسح الويب للحصول على بودكاست عالية الجودة لتستمتع بها الآن. إنه أفضل تطبيق بودكاست ويعمل على أجهزة اندرويد والأيفون والويب. قم بالتسجيل لمزامنة الاشتراكات عبر الأجهزة.