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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 1h

Reading tonight with Caroline Calloway in St. Petersburg at Tombolo Books.

7 pm.

Guest appearances from Chester Watson, Kent Loon, They Hate Change and Dangeruss.

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 1h

As a dedicated alt-weekly evangelist, it means something special to be featured in one of the last ones standing. RIP LA Weekly.

www.cltampa.com/arts/intervi...

Jeff Weiss finally comes to Florida's Gulf Coast to talk Britney, American media, and more

Los Angeles author Jeff Weiss brings his new Britney Spears book to St. Petersburg on Oct. 15, 2025.

www.cltampa.com

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 1h

On the cover of Creative Loafing Tampa this week with my best friends Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and this regal pink flamingo

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 5h

A beautiful requiem for the miracle that was D'Angelo.

The pen, the voice, the face, the talent.

The three classics.

The genius that he could summon by force of will.

The impossibility of categorizing him.

The void that his death leaves.

By Abe Beame

www.passionweiss.com/2025/10/14/d...

The Anointed One: A Requiem For D'Angelo | Passion of the Weiss

Abe Beame eulogizes the inimitable genius of the soul icon who tragically passed away yesterday after a battle with cancer.

www.passionweiss.com

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 23h

Good company 🫡

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JOE DANTE'S INFERNO @oldtobegin.bsky.social · 23h

two important pickups at Community Bookstore in park slope @passionweiss.bsky.social @chrisdeville.bsky.social

Such Great Heights by Chris DeVille and Waiting for Britney Spears by Jeff Weiss

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 1d

We had the legendary Myka 9 on The Truth Hurts, sharing stories about Eazy-E, 2Pac, trying to battle Run D.M.C. at Wendy's and the formation of Freestyle Fellowship. Plus, his thoughts on spirituality, jazz, creativity, and his latest opus with Blu.

Real LA history

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbzE...

Myka 9 | The Truth Hurts Podcast

YouTube video by The Truth Hurts

www.youtube.com

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 1d

💜🤝

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🎃it's the great pumpkin, jawnny truant🐦‍⬛ @gothicdolphins.bsky.social · 1d

I love D'Angelo so so much, this truly breaks my heart

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 1d

D'Angelo is one of the only artists I can think of where his brilliance allows for no subjectivity. If you don't like his music, there's something wrong - a fundamental inability to understand the magic and sorrow of existence.

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 1d

RIP D'Angelo, the greatest singer since Marvin departed. Who took the grit & attitude of hip-hop & alchemized it into angelic voodoo. He condensed the human condition - sex, suffering, addiction, love, oppression - into pure transcendence. A comet emitting blinding light & soul.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 6d

Some stories about my friend Kaleb, on the occasion of his funeral:

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IT'S JUST DIFFERENT VALLEYS, THAT'S ALL

Kaleb Horton has departed this life, and for those left behind there is nothing that reconciles any part of what’s happened with what should’ve happened. He had a family, grieving now. He had friends,...

channel-6.ghost.io

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 2d

AKAI SOLO artfully asks existential questions

Coast Contra peel back the layers of American living

Dayarga masters the Morse Code French rap flow

Lelo defines big league

Papo2oo4 & Subjxct 5 remain all-conference

Anthony Seaman drops a killer Rap Up

www.passionweiss.com/2025/10/12/t...

The Rap-Up: Week of October 13, 2025 | Passion of the Weiss

AKAI SOLO unlocks the knowledge of self, Dayarga delivers a lesson on safe sex in French, Lelo continues to evolve the sound of New Detroit and more, in this week's Rap-Up.

www.passionweiss.com

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Alfred Soto @sotoalfred.bsky.social · 3d

Join us at @booksandbooks.bsky.social on Oct. 14 as we discuss the novel WAITING FOR BRITNEY SPEARS with author @passionweiss.bsky.social. Topics will include tabloid culture, the VMAs, and Parliament cigarettes. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/c...

C’est Britney!

She is both ruler and servant, fed orders and aspirations by a consortium of interested parties. Everyone is eager for a taste or a cut.– Jeff Weiss Many of us who wrote about Britney Spears …

humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 6d

Slam on the CDJ returns with an immaculate selection of the best DJ sets from the last month.

Featuring boxofbox, Baba Stiltz, Bambi & Beatrice M, CCL, Ciel, Hank Jackson, Kilbourne, Mazzacles, the cast of the RA 1000 & more.

By @michaelmckinney.bsky.social

www.passionweiss.com/2025/10/08/s...

Slam on the CDJ: The Best DJ Sets of August 2025 | Passion of the Weiss

The best DJ sets of August included Baba Stiltz moving to wigged-out house and hip-hop cuts, two hours of sand-blasted downtempo via Myles Mac and DJ Possum, and plenty more.

www.passionweiss.com

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A @azam92.bsky.social · 7d

For like 10 years, I’ve wanted someone to write about The Flanderization of Jay Electronica. And this nails it. Had zero interest in listening to whatever he dumped on streaming services

Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 7d

It's been nearly 20 years since Jay Electronica emerged from nowhere to drop some of the best & most enigmatic rap of the '00s.

Since then, he's been a ghost.

Anthony Seaman tried to make sense of his new EPs and his descent into tin foil conspiracy theories.

www.passionweiss.com/2025/10/08/j...

What the Fuck is a Jay Electronica in 2025? | Passion of the Weiss

With Jay Electronica's latest "album," Anthony Seaman starts to wonder if his once-brilliant talent is anything more than a memory.

www.passionweiss.com

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 7d

If you're in the DMV, I'm speaking tomorrow night at George Mason as a visiting writer for the university's fall book festival. Come through.

If you're not in the DMV, please disregard and burn this Blueskyitude after reading.

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 7d

It's been nearly 20 years since Jay Electronica emerged from nowhere to drop some of the best & most enigmatic rap of the '00s.

Since then, he's been a ghost.

Anthony Seaman tried to make sense of his new EPs and his descent into tin foil conspiracy theories.

www.passionweiss.com/2025/10/08/j...

What the Fuck is a Jay Electronica in 2025? | Passion of the Weiss

With Jay Electronica's latest "album," Anthony Seaman starts to wonder if his once-brilliant talent is anything more than a memory.

www.passionweiss.com

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Nick J Mascis @bridgemusicbunker.bsky.social · 7d

Just remembered Bart Oatmeal.

Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · Mar 10

In his latest career twist, Baron Davis is now rapping (very well) under the alias, Bart Oatmeal.

I profiled him for ESPN about coming up in South Central, falling in love with basketball & hip-hop, freestyling with Lil Wayne, Kendrick in his early days & much more.

www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

How Baron Davis found his voice as rapper Bart Oatmeal

Baron Davis, the South Central L.A. legend, is navigating the transition of life after hoops with his second love: rapping.

www.espn.com

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 8d

We had Heembeezy on the Truth Hurts to talk about growing up between LA and the IE, dealing with incarceration, his viral rise off "Face No Book" and "Floccer," the algorithm, and reckoning with stardom in an era that prioritizes division and conflict.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY1l...

Heembeezy | The Truth Hurts Podcast

YouTube video by The Truth Hurts

www.youtube.com

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 9d

Danny Brown makes a warehouse rave burner

YT croaks 8-bit auto-tune pain ballads

1900 Rugrat and Rio have a showdown

Sam Wise lets loose werewolf howls

seventhirtyatmorning builds a case for next up

Anthony Seaman with a stepping razor sharp Rap Up.

www.passionweiss.com/2025/10/06/t...

The Rap-Up: Week of October 6, 2025 | Passion of the Weiss

Danny Brown's new single, 8-bit autotune croaks from the UK via YT, a shit-talking showdown betwween 1900Rugrat and Rio Da Yung Og, and more.

www.passionweiss.com

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 12d

This is music that isn't heard as much as unleashed. Psychic lacerations and alien apparitions, electric soul snatching and otherworldly menace. Fun for the whole nuclear family.

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 12d

The Hell House expanded to 20 tracks, including new features from Lungs and Rhys Langston, eerie previously unheard instrumentals & 4 entirely new poison darts from the macabre Mothra, Fatboi Sharif.

Plus, the original features from Bruiser Wolf & ELUCID fatboisharif.bandcamp.com/album/planet...

Planet Unfaithful (Deluxe), by Fatboi Sharif & Roper Williams

20 track album

fatboisharif.bandcamp.com

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 12d

"Planet Unfaithful Deluxe" crash lands today on @powrecordings.bsky.social
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An inter-dimensional odyssey of Jesus chains and ginsu blades, crocodile house pets and deranged prophecies from the minds of Fatboi Sharif and Roper Williams

Something sinister to it.

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 13d

I'm doing a "Waiting For a Britney" event in Toronto next Tuesday with the brilliant Natalie Harmsen & Carl Wilson.

And then afterwards, I'll be participating in a 50 Vs 1 Debate where I'm besieged by a pitchfork-wielding mob of OVO stans. It'll be fun. www.eventbrite.ca/e/waiting-fo...

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