selected writing (by date)

the following is a lightly condensed, chronological archive of my freelance bylines since 2013.

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2021:

On Wiki's Half God and marking time in Dimes Square (Laid Off NYC); on Lukah's Why Look Up, God's in the Mirror (Pitchfork); on Third Eye Blind's Our Bande Apart (Pitchfork); on AZ's Doe or Die II (Pitchfork); on Peter Heller's The Guide (The New York Times Book Review); on Freddie deBoer on Jia Tolentino (Medium); on Samia's Scout (Pitchfork); on HRSMN's The Last Ride (Pitchfork); on beabadoobee's Our Extended Play (Pitchfork); on Knowledge the Pirate's Hidden Treasure (Pitchfork); on Contour's Love Suite (Pitchfork); on Kipp Stone's Faygo Baby (Pitchfork); on DMX (Passion of the Weiss); on Dario Diofebi's Paradise, Nevada (The Washington Post); on Ratboys' Happy Birthday, Ratboy (Pitchfork); on the MTA's "Voices of the Subway" (Laid Off NYC); on Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin's $mokebreak (Pitchfork); on the new, non-populist poptimism (DIRT); in conversation with NOLAN (Passion of the Weiss); on Benny the Butcher's The Plugs I Met 2 (Pitchfork); on Ol' Burger Beats & Vuyo's Dialogue (Pitchfork); on Conway the Machine's If It Bleeds It Can Be Killed (Pitchfork); "Fulfillment Center," a short story (HASH Journal); on Nyck Caution's Anywhere But Here (Pitchfork); on Boldy James's Real Bad Boldy (Pitchfork)

2020:

On Spillage Village's Spilligion (Pitchfork); on Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful (The Washington Post); on Knox Fortune's Stock Child Wonder (Pitchfork); on Stefany Anne Golberg's My Morningless Mornings (Full Stop); on Machine Gun Kelly's Tickets to My Downfall (Pitchfork); on MC Eiht's Lessons (Pitchfork); on Nas's King's Disease (Pitchfork); in conversation with Solemn Brigham (Bandcamp Daily); on Bruce Hornsby's Non-Secure Connection (Pitchfork); on Spotify's Appears On tab and the embattled state of music discovery (Medium); in conversation with Rebecca Kauffman (Guernica); on Lynn Steger Strong's Want (The Washington Post); in conversation with Rahiem Supreme (Passion of the Weiss); on Yaya Bey's Madison Tapes (Pitchfork); on Vanessa Carlton's Love Is an Art (Pitchfork): in conversation with Anna Wiener (The Paris Review)

2019:

On French Montana's Montana (Pitchfork); on Roc Marciano's Marcielago (Pitchfork); on Jaime Fountaine's Manhunt (Full Stop); on the pandering Cuomo brothers (The Outline); on Chip Cheek's Cape May (The Kenyon Review); BJ the Chicago Kid, profiled (FLOOD Magazine); in conversation with Rick Paulas (Los Angeles Review of Books); on G4 Jag's The Survivors (Passion of the Weiss); on Karen Dukess's The Last Book Party (The Washington Post); on Heem Stogied (Bandcamp Daily); on Natasha Young's Static Flux (Full Stop); on Resistance Lit™️ (The Outline); on Ankhlejohn's A-Cold-World* (Washington City Paper); in conversation with Alexandrea Ravenelle (The Outline); in conversation with Jahbaz Dawson (Passion of the Weiss); on Thomas Kohnstamm's Lake City (Vol. 1 Brooklyn); on Marci Vogel's Death and Other Holidays (Cleveland Review of Books); on Juliet Lapidos's Talent (Washington City Paper); on Dell Fargo’s Mental Health (Washington City Paper); on Steve Anwyll’s Welfare (The Washington Post)

2018:

Henry Canyons, profiled (FLOOD Magazine); on LL Cool J (Vulture); on Melanie Hobson’s Summer Cannibals (Full Stop); on Zilla Rocca’s Future Former Rapper (Passion of the Weiss); on Napoleon da Legend and Giallo Point’s Coup D’Etat (Washington City Paper); on Lucie Greene and San Francisco futurism (The Outline); on Robert Anthony Siegel’s Criminals: My Family's Life on Both Sides of the Law (Los Angeles Review of Books); on Rahiem Supreme’s Drip Bond (Washington City Paper); on Mike Scalise’s The Brand New Catastrophe (The Kenyon Review); on Bhad Bhabie (Vulture); in conversation with One Be Lo (Passion of the Weiss); on Tha God Fahim (Bandcamp Daily); on Nico Walker’s Cherry (Cleveland Review of Books); on Nas and Kanye West’s NASIR (FLOOD Magazine); on Michael Zadoorian’s Beautiful Music (The Washington Post); on Menace II Society (FLOOD Magazine); on Rebecca Kauffman’s The Gunners (Washington City Paper); on Rebekah Frumkin’s The Comedown (Full Stop); on Anna Yen and Silicon Valley mythos (The Outline); on Henry Canyons’s La Cote West (Passion of the Weiss); on Patrick Nathan’s Some Hell (Los Angeles Times)

2017:

On Hanif Abdurraqib’s They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (The Washington Post); Eamon, profiled (LA Weekly); on Elijah Blake's Audiology (Passion of the Weiss); in conversation with O.C. (Bandcamp Daily); Anthony “L’s” Cruz, profiled (LA Weekly); on Brian Platzer’s Bed-Stuy Is Burning (The Awl); on Master P's Ghetto D (Passion of the Weiss); in conversation with Darcie Wilder (Brooklyn Magazine); on Le$’s Midnight Club (Passion of the Weiss); on Don Lee’s Lonesome Lies Before Us (The Awl); on Joey Bada$$’s All-AmeriKKKan Bada$$ (The Village Voice); in conversation with B.G. Firmani (Los Angeles Review of Books); Your Old Droog, profiled (SPIN); on Anna Pitoniak’s The Futures (The Village Voice); on J. Cole (The Awl); on David Remnick on Donald Trump (Los Angeles Review of Books)

2013-2016:

Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth, profiled (SPIN); on Edwin O’Connor (Los Angeles Review of Books); on Above the Law (LA Weekly); in conversation with Kemba (Passion of the Weiss); in conversation with Michael Tolle (Forbes); Oddisee, profiled (The Awl); on "L.I. Groove" (Passion of the Weiss); on 2Pac (Passion of the Weiss); in conversation with Grip Grand (Forbes); in conversation with The Doppelgangaz (Passion of the Weiss); Jared Evan, profiled (LA Weekly); The Nonce, profiled (LA Weekly); on Warren G’s Regulate...G-Funk Era, Part II (LA Weekly); HANiF and Kenny Kingpin, profiled (LA Weekly); on the Preakness Stakes (The Awl); Slum Village, profiled (Vice); on hip hop’s anniversary fever (The Atlantic); on Kanye West and rap religiosity (The Atlantic)