Sublime

Do I think there’s time? What is this book except proof that there’s always time, and that we’re always moving through it? There’s this show on HBO called “Witness,” a documentary series about photojournalists in the world’s trouble spots. We just ran a short review of it in the New Yorker, and in her piece, Emily Nussbaum made a point of how

He conducts an ongoing interrogation about what it all means. What’s black culture? What’s hip-hop? What are the responsibilities of a society and the people in it? And his inquiry isn’t bloodlessly academic, either; there’s something very consequential about his approach.

We wanted to take the attention and goodwill we had generated with Things Fall Apart and present a catalog album of everything we were able to do. We wanted to shatter people’s myths, not only about what rap groups could do, but also about what black groups could do. And we wanted to show everyone that our main reason for being was to change.

Amir was everything. Every. Thing. The name itself means “Prince.”

Moses also lavished attention on top editors.

his understanding of the roles and functions of music in Black American culture, the legacy of black aspirations for freedom in the United States, and his intent to follow the “creative urge.”