Maybe the one part of Blackness that others outside of it can’t comprehend is the world-building in the word-building we experience in our music. That process that reflects our culture. Something one eases into like fingers dipped in stylinggel or oil before going to weave someone’s hair into someth...

I got wind of High and Rising: A Book About De La Soul online - but in a way that was unexpected, and which I would soon come to learn, a little unfair. I was pleasantly surprised to hear that a book about one of the Hip-Hop groups I adore was on the horizon. But the group’s reaction to this book by...