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A Tribe Called Quest / The Source |
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Gordon Parks’ Hiphop Shoot / XXL |
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Mos Def / The Fader |
Books:
2007: Contributor,
Approaching Literature in the 21st Century, St. Martin’s
2007: Contributor,
33 1/3’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2, Continuum Books
2007: Editor, Bronx Biannual Issue 2, Akashic Books
2006: Contributor,
The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers, McSweeney’s
2006: Author, There’s a Riot Goin’ On, Continuum Books
2006: Editor, Bronx Biannual Issue 1, Akashic Books
2004: Author, Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises, Akashic Books
Fiction:
2007: “Numbers Up”, Bronx Noir, Akashic Books [PDF]
2007: “The Wu-Tang Candidate”, Bronx Biannual Issue 2, Akashic Books [PDF]
2006: “Threesomes”, RuthiesClub.com
2006: “Irrésistible”, Wanderlust: 14 Erotic Tales, Plume
2005: “Peg Entwistle Will Have Her Revenge on Hollywoodland”, NatCreole.com
2004: “Diva Moves”, Brown Sugar 3: When Opposites Attract, Washington Square Press
From The Believer:
06.2007 / Interview with Terence Trent D’Arby [PDF]
04.2005 / Interview with Sarah Jones
11.2004 / Interview with August Wilson [PDF]
From PopMatters.com “Paris Noir” column:
09.06.2006 / Alvin Ailey Dance Theater + French breakdancers: “Rock Steady Revelations”
04.19.2006 / Interview with comic artist Paul Pope: “Batman, Africans, and the Pope’s Superheroics”
03.20.2006 / Kanye West live at Le Zénith: “College Dropout Studies
Abroad”
01.26.2006 / Basquiat exhibit + Maripol photos at Colette: “Public
Figure Him Figurehead”
01.05.2006 / 2006 France Riots: “No Replastering…The Structure Is
Rotten”
11.23.2005 / The French hiphop literati: “Hiphop Négritude”
09.22.2005 / French-African Festival Rue Léon: “Africa Talks to You”
08.02.2005 / Why I left the US: “The Complexities of American Exile”
06.30.2005 / Walking tour through the 18th arrondissement: “Strollin’”
05.24.2005 / Joshua Redman live at New Morning: “The Joy of Sax, Part I”
04.27.2005 / Hiphop Summit + Nas live at Le Zénith: “Summits,
Disciples, and the Love Below”
03.23.2005 / Bohemian B-boy leaves Harlem for France: “Why Paris?”
From The Village Voice:
05.06.2008 / Madonna, Hard Candy: “Madonna’s Hard Candy”
03.04.2008 / Erykah Badu, New Amerykah: Pt. One (4th World War): “Erykah Badu: The Plebeian, Militant Homegirl”
02.12.2008 / Michael Jackson, Thriller: “Michael Jackson’s Nigh-Unstoppable Thriller Gets the 25th-Anniversary Treatment”
12.11.2007 / Wu-Tang Clan, 8 Diagrams: “Enter the 37th Chamber”
07.31.2007 / Common, Finding Forever: “Common’s Simple Denominator”
07.24.2007 / Prince, Planet Earth: “Purple Drizzle”
03.30.2007 / Macy Gray, Big: “Still Tryin’”
02.01.2007 / Pazz & Jop Music Critics Poll Essay 2007: “Insanity and Other Mutations”
11.27.2007 / Jay-Z, Kingdom Come: “Hova’s Slight Return”
10.16.2006 / Janet Jackson, 20 Y.O.: “Lose Control”
09.15.2006 / Method Man, 4:21…The Day After: “Tical 2006: The Falling Off”
08.03.2004 / James Baldwin, Native Sons: “Dear Jimmy, Deal Sol: Old Letters Between Friends”
07.03.2002 / Lauryn Hill, MTV Unplugged 2.0: “Reality Soundbites”
03.29.2002 / Mark Anthony Neal, Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic, “Generation Hiphop’s Aesthetics”
01.23.2002 / Interview with comic writer/artist/director Frank Miller: “Thwack! Batman’s Back”
12.27.2001 / Kevin Powell, Step Into a World: “Lyrical Gangstas”
09.19.2001 / Michael Eric Dyson, Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac: “Black Blueprint”
08.29.2001 / Aaliyah Obituary: “The Highest, Most Exalted One: Aaliyah, 1979-2001”
08.01.2001 / At a Literary Retreat, Authors Debate the Mainstreaming of African-American Lit – “The Black Book”
07.18.2001 / Jennifer Clement, Widow Basquiat: “Portrait of the Artist’s Girlfriend”
06.27.2001 / Tricky, Live at Irving Plaza, “Kind of Blue”
09.20.2000 / Wyclef Jean, The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book: “Ecleftic Ladyland”
01.26.2000 / D’Angelo, Voodoo: “Prophecy Fullfilled”
01.19.2000 / Rakim/Jay-Z, The Master/Vol.3…Life and Times of S.Carter: “The Passing of the Mic”
12.15.1999 / A Tribe Called Quest/Q-Tip, The Anthology/Amplified: “New Abstract”
03.03.1999 / The Roots, Things Fall Apart: “Love Jones”
03.01.1999 / Pazz & Jop Music Critics Poll Essay 1999: “Tribal Movement”
01.13.1999 / DMX, Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood: “One-Man Dialogues”
From Salon.com:
04.03.2008 / Gnarls Barkley, The Odd Couple: “Hiphop’s Biggest Clowns”
From Mean:
09.2007 / Interview with Julie Delpy: “She’ll Always Have Paris” [JPG]
11.2007 / Interview with Marion Cotillard: “Belle on the Ball” [PDF]
From Rolling Stone:
10.03.2000 / Do or Die, Victory
09.14.2000 / Kina, Kina
04.27.2000 / Bones Thugs-N-Harmony, BTNHResurrection
10.12.1999 / Mos Def, Black on Both Sides
07.08.1999 / Inspectah Deck, Uncontrolled Substance
04.01.1999 / Too $hort, Can’t Stay Away
06.18.1998 / DMX, It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot
03.23.1998 / Daz Dillinger, Retailiation, Revenge and Get Back
01.30.1997 / Erykah Badu, Baduizm
From Dazed & Confused:
09.2007 / Facing Off: Blackface, Minstrels and Hiphop [PDF]
From Blender:
02.25.2003 / Freeway, Philadelphia Freeway
12.09.2002 / Cody Chesnutt, The Headphone Masterpiece
11.19.2002 / Talib Kweli, Quality
11.05.2002 / Ms. Jade, Girl Interrupted
08.27.2002 / Eve, Eve-olution
08.27.2002 / Darrin Keith Bastfield, Back in the Day: My Life and
Times with Tupac Shakur
07.23.2002 / Haystack, The Natural
06.04.2002 / People Under the Stairs, OST (Original Sound Track)
From The Nation:
12.23.2002 / Interview with Russell Simmons: “Russell Simmons’s Rap”
From L.A. Weekly:
03.12.2003 / 50 Cent, Get Rich or Die Tryin’: “Ghosts vs. Boasts”
03.13.2002 / Alanis Morissette, Under Rug Swept
07.17.2001 / Nikka Costa, Everybody Got Their Something
01.10.2001 / Wu-Tang Clan, The W: “Can’t Go to Sleep”
12.19.2000 / LL Cool J, G.O.A.T.: “Beat Baggage”
06.26.2000 / Pearl Jam, Binaural: “Midnight Sun”
02.23.2000 / Smashing Pumpkins, Machina/The Machines of God: “This Is the Rock”
01.12.2000 / The Notorious BIG, Born Again: “Word According to B.I.G.”
11.24.1999 / Dr. Dre, 2001: “Still D.R.E.”
04.28.1999 / Nas, I Am: “A Dollar a Holler”
02.10.1999 / Foxy Brown, Chyna Doll: “Myth Master”
07.10.1998 / Lenny Kravitz, 5: “Power of Flower”
From The Washington Post:
08.26.2006 / Christopher John Farley, Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley: “Redemption Song”
From Expatica.com:
03.2006 / Registering my son as an American citizen in Paris – “Americans Born Abroad”
From King:
05.02.2007 / Interview with Stan Lee: “King Me: Stan Lee”
From Poz:
07.2003 / Fela Kuti exhibit at NYC’s New Museum of Contemporary Art – “I Go Shout Plenty”
From Launch.com:
10.22.1998 / Interview with A Tribe Called Quest: “A Love Supreme”
07.22.1998 / Interview with Jermaine Dupri: “A Talk with JD”
03.13.1998 / Interview with Tricky: “Nearly God, or Just Dirty-Faced Angel?”
02.03.1998 / Interview with Scarface: “Scarred for Life”
From The Source:
1998: Interview with A Tribe Called Quest
2002: Interview with Q-Tip
2003: Interview with Common
From Spin:
1999: Profile of The Roots
From Oneworld:
2001: Interview with Erykah Badu
