Ms. LAURYN HILL-BEYOND BEING WOKE PART 2

Ms. LAURYN HILL-BEYOND BEING WOKE PART 2

In this second installment, Malik Crumpler continues with his nostalgic Mis-Education journey. Here he looks at the fall out from that defining album. Ironically, while the album certainly propelled Lauryn Hill to stratospheric levels of adulation, it is the negative...
GANGSTER RAP-HEGEMONY CIRCA 1980 PART 3

GANGSTER RAP-HEGEMONY CIRCA 1980 PART 3

In the last of his three part exploration of gangster rap, #itchysilk writer Malik Crumpler delves further into the wormhole that is gangsta rap and brings us up to the times with names like, Cardi B. Indeed as she rises through the ranks to rap royalty we have to ask...