I know music plays a big part in my life but it isn’t until I sat down to write down this piece of news that I really saw it. Two pieces of mine have been published recently. Neither deal with music but both feature it. ‘Eason Chan In My Room‘ is a memoiristic essay about […]
Chinese rap, bubbles, and political everything
“Asian” Hip-hop I watched VICE’s first episode of their second season of Minority Reports. Titled ‘Hip Hop’s Reckoning with Asian Rappers,’ the half-hour show in my opinion tackled the easy, or at least obvious, questions. Easy in the sense that cultural appropriation (which VICE angled as appreciation through their choice of footage), Rich Brian’s first […]
Different – Serengeti
A Year In December is a series of notes in which I talk about a song a day until the end of the year. Today, I talk about something by Serengeti. Serengeti is rap’s David Foster Wallace. I sometimes can’t tell if I’m a fan of the real artist David Cohn, his work as Serengeti, […]
Joel Mak 