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A group photo of the Wu-Tang Clan standing in the desert, backlit by a dusky sunset.

Enter the Wu-Tang

By Noah Springer • February 24th, 2023

2023 marks the 30th anniversary of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and something like the 18th anniversary of Noah listening to it.

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Noteworthy Hip Hop – January 2023

By Noah Springer • January 24th, 2023

A little wrap-up of potential classics Noah overlooked last year.

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Selection from Danger Mouse and Black Thought's Cheat Codes album. Several black-and-white photographs of mens' heads have been altered to have red and green bullseyes over their eyes.

Noteworthy Hip Hop – November 2022

By Noah Springer • November 28th, 2022

Noah shifts his focus from monsters and the hip hop of the past to focus on the here and now.

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The triple-headed dragon/monster/alien King Ghidorah in flight.

Aliens and Monsters

By Noah Springer • October 24th, 2022

Aliens and monsters both have roots in the history of pop music, but it’s hip hop in which the two are combined most effectively, specifically in the work of Kool Keith and MF DOOM.

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In a still from the movie Men in Black, Will Smith's character prepares to use his memory-erasing device.

Noteworthy Hip Hop – September 2022

By Noah Springer • September 27th, 2022

1997 was a good year for hip hop and an even better one for Noah.

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A drawing of a man opening his face on a hinge, revealing colorful circuitry in place of flesh and bone.

Noteworthy Hip Hop – August 2022

By Noah Springer • August 30th, 2022

Well, it’s August and boy is it hot! But this column isn’t about the heat that comes from the atmosphere, just the heat that comes off these fresh drops.

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A pixelated demon with red eyes and gaping maw from the videogame DOOM.

The Beat Box – DOOM

By Noah Springer • July 29th, 2022

Bouncing around microchips as a micro-man or walking around a 2D dungeon, rolling hits on a gelatinous blob felt like child’s play to the splattering gore of Doom.

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A close-up portrait of Kendrick Lamar, a bearded man with dreadlocks.

Noteworthy Hip Hop – A Kendrick Lamar Retrospective

By Noah Springer • June 24th, 2022

Coupling Kendrick Lamar’s recent album release and Unwinnable’s tenth+ year, Noah charts the critically acclaimed rapper’s rise over the 2010s.

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A side-profile photograph of Denzel Curry that is blurred and pixelated as if seen on a snowy TV screen.

Noteworthy Hip Hop – May 2022

By Noah Springer • May 27th, 2022

In anticipation of Kendrick Lamar dropping his first album in five years this month, some of the top rappers in the game decided to put on a hip hop clinic.

A sepia-toned photograph of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, an African-American a capella group from Fisk University.

Sigurd Springer’s Music Box

By Noah Springer • April 26th, 2022

In correspondence from a temporarily quiet battlefield, Private First Class Sigurd Springer writes on the premier melodians of 1872.

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