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Stew (Passing Strange, the Negro Problem) Talks Earl Sweatshirt’s Doris

Musical genres are as groundless as racial categories. Genres don't describe music, they describe sales categories, marketing ploys, demographic...

March 27, 2015

Stew (Passing Strange, the Negro Problem) Talks SoKo’s I Thought I Was an Alien

I don’t wish to write about this great record from the perspective of an old man, nor from the point of view of a younger version of myself. I wish...

July 15, 2013

Stew (Passing Strange, the Negro Problem) Talks Talib Kweli’s Prisoner of Conscious

I’m on the B41 bus cruising north on Flatbush Avenue through Brooklyn towards my homestead. (Or am I really headed to Peppa’s Jerk Chicken?)

May 23, 2013