Humthrush
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This is the Bluesky account for Humthrush.com, a site run by Mosi Reeves.
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go watch “School Colors” (as mentioned in this article) about race relations at Berkeley High School in the early 90s) and have your mind blown at the echoes out to today
very cool look at the scene that birthed me by @humthrush.bsky.social
(I’m quoted a bunch)
www.kqed.org/arts/1398432...
(I’m quoted a bunch)
www.kqed.org/arts/1398432...
Unsigned and Hella Broke: The East Bay’s Dirt-Hustling 1990s Hip-Hop Subculture | KQED
How a movement made of homemade cassette tapes and independent hustle changed Bay Area hip-hop history.
www.kqed.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
go watch “School Colors” (as mentioned in this article) about race relations at Berkeley High School in the early 90s) and have your mind blown at the echoes out to today
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very cool look at the scene that birthed me by @humthrush.bsky.social
(I’m quoted a bunch)
www.kqed.org/arts/1398432...
(I’m quoted a bunch)
www.kqed.org/arts/1398432...
Unsigned and Hella Broke: The East Bay’s Dirt-Hustling 1990s Hip-Hop Subculture | KQED
How a movement made of homemade cassette tapes and independent hustle changed Bay Area hip-hop history.
www.kqed.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
very cool look at the scene that birthed me by @humthrush.bsky.social
(I’m quoted a bunch)
www.kqed.org/arts/1398432...
(I’m quoted a bunch)
www.kqed.org/arts/1398432...
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Sunspot Jonz!
For Bay Area rap heads, I wrote about the underground rap era of the mid-90s for KQED. www.kqed.org/arts/1398432...
Unsigned and Hella Broke: The East Bay’s Dirt-Hustling 1990s Hip-Hop Subculture | KQED
How a movement made of homemade cassette tapes and independent hustle changed Bay Area hip-hop history.
www.kqed.org
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Sunspot Jonz!
For Bay Area rap heads, I wrote about the underground rap era of the mid-90s for KQED. www.kqed.org/arts/1398432...
Unsigned and Hella Broke: The East Bay’s Dirt-Hustling 1990s Hip-Hop Subculture | KQED
How a movement made of homemade cassette tapes and independent hustle changed Bay Area hip-hop history.
www.kqed.org
December 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
For Bay Area rap heads, I wrote about the underground rap era of the mid-90s for KQED. www.kqed.org/arts/1398432...
I wrote the year-end Hiphop and R&B column. Congratulations to The Wire for a successful 2025!
The Wire 503-4 is out now!
Featuring the Top 50 new and archive releases, critical analysis and reflections, plus Hilary Woods, Makaya McCraven, Anna Högberg, Tristan Perich, Derek Bailey’s Company, Ikonika’s Jukebox, and much more.
Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
Featuring the Top 50 new and archive releases, critical analysis and reflections, plus Hilary Woods, Makaya McCraven, Anna Högberg, Tristan Perich, Derek Bailey’s Company, Ikonika’s Jukebox, and much more.
Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
December 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I wrote the year-end Hiphop and R&B column. Congratulations to The Wire for a successful 2025!
Wow...I didn't realize Laughing Squid still existed. Peace to all the creators of internet 1.0 that you don't have to use the Wayback Machine to rediscover. laughingsquid.com
Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
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November 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Wow...I didn't realize Laughing Squid still existed. Peace to all the creators of internet 1.0 that you don't have to use the Wayback Machine to rediscover. laughingsquid.com
Dear fledgling writers: Never begin an attack on a book's ideas with the sentence, "I never actually read the book." (And yes, this is a shot.)
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Dear fledgling writers: Never begin an attack on a book's ideas with the sentence, "I never actually read the book." (And yes, this is a shot.)
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That comment also bugs me out and I'm the estate!
November 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
That comment also bugs me out and I'm the estate!
Rap and R&B musicians deserve as much critical generosity as your boilerplate indie/"electronic"/pop/hyperpop/meme act. A claim that "Well, it's not as good as this Grammy-winning comeback classic from a decade ago" feels like an unreasonable standard.
Mixed feelings on the new De La Soul album. Big improvement over the 2016 one, with a much more solid sense of what it wants to be and what listeners want, but it doesn't have the creativity to stand as their own Thank You 4 Your Service. Safe to a fault.
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Rap and R&B musicians deserve as much critical generosity as your boilerplate indie/"electronic"/pop/hyperpop/meme act. A claim that "Well, it's not as good as this Grammy-winning comeback classic from a decade ago" feels like an unreasonable standard.
I reviewed De La Soul's "Cabin in the Sky." www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
De La Soul Overcome Grief by Embracing the Promise of Life
De La Soul overcome grief by embracing the promise of life on ‘Cabin in the Sky.’
www.rollingstone.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I reviewed De La Soul's "Cabin in the Sky." www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Rest in peace to Udo Kier.
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Rest in peace to Udo Kier.
Ha ha…there’s a long tradition of rappers and R&B singers making songs inspired by their managers’ lives, but fans think it’s about *them*.
Confessions being all about Jermaine Dupri shenanigans also makes it that much funnier.
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Ha ha…there’s a long tradition of rappers and R&B singers making songs inspired by their managers’ lives, but fans think it’s about *them*.
This sentence from the NYT story on college radio bugs me out. We all know that Arthur Russell is dead, right? A record label can't sign *him*, just whoever owns his estate. It's strange how folks freely confuse the two entities now.
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This sentence from the NYT story on college radio bugs me out. We all know that Arthur Russell is dead, right? A record label can't sign *him*, just whoever owns his estate. It's strange how folks freely confuse the two entities now.
Peace to HD Angel, one of the few folks I met on Twitter who I can honestly say I would’ve never met if not for Twitter. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Newcleus: Jam on Revenge
Read H.D. Angel’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Peace to HD Angel, one of the few folks I met on Twitter who I can honestly say I would’ve never met if not for Twitter. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
@obsofdeviance.bsky.social Did you see this?
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
@obsofdeviance.bsky.social Did you see this?
I know it isn’t kosher to critique other rap pieces. But rap writing historically suffers from a serious lack of empathy and an ugly “dudes” perspective, at least with reviews/analysis. (Columns and feature writing isn’t as bad.) As I get older, I feel compelled to occasionally push back on that.
November 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I know it isn’t kosher to critique other rap pieces. But rap writing historically suffers from a serious lack of empathy and an ugly “dudes” perspective, at least with reviews/analysis. (Columns and feature writing isn’t as bad.) As I get older, I feel compelled to occasionally push back on that.
Also, the irony isn’t lost on me that the writer compared a famously gay musician to a rapper who famously gay-bashed an artist on his own label.
I can’t be more specific for political reasons, and I know it’s just a dunk (ha ha). But comparing The Smiths to Drake encapsulates how so many music writers delude themselves by boasting that they’ve heard “everything,” but in reality they didn’t understand any of it.
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Also, the irony isn’t lost on me that the writer compared a famously gay musician to a rapper who famously gay-bashed an artist on his own label.
I can’t be more specific for political reasons, and I know it’s just a dunk (ha ha). But comparing The Smiths to Drake encapsulates how so many music writers delude themselves by boasting that they’ve heard “everything,” but in reality they didn’t understand any of it.
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I can’t be more specific for political reasons, and I know it’s just a dunk (ha ha). But comparing The Smiths to Drake encapsulates how so many music writers delude themselves by boasting that they’ve heard “everything,” but in reality they didn’t understand any of it.
I just want to make clear that I will always love Klay.
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I just want to make clear that I will always love Klay.
It kills me how folks – even good center-left outlets – stay glued to the YIMBY narrative. I'm not arguing for state takeover. But given the stock available, it seems worth exploring tax-and-regulation solutions as well as building yet more market-rate housing for investors to stash their money in.
"Claim" is doing quite a bit of work here. Don't want to get too deep, but here's an example of several stories on empty housing units in California: www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It kills me how folks – even good center-left outlets – stay glued to the YIMBY narrative. I'm not arguing for state takeover. But given the stock available, it seems worth exploring tax-and-regulation solutions as well as building yet more market-rate housing for investors to stash their money in.
"Claim" is doing quite a bit of work here. Don't want to get too deep, but here's an example of several stories on empty housing units in California: www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Claim" is doing quite a bit of work here. Don't want to get too deep, but here's an example of several stories on empty housing units in California: www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Stand up against business techno!
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Stand up against business techno!
Probably the only rapper that can sample dialogue from “Dead Poets Society” and not have it sound cliché or corny.
Happy Navy Blue day.
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Probably the only rapper that can sample dialogue from “Dead Poets Society” and not have it sound cliché or corny.
Happy Navy Blue day.
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Happy Navy Blue day.