Do you remember the first album you bought? As a 10-year-old living in North Providence, Rhode Island, in the pre-file-sharing, pre-streaming days of the early ’90s, I would tape songs off the radio onto blank cassettes, trying to hit record at the right moment and stop just before DJ banter ruined a perfect compilation. I distinctly remember having a 120-minute Memorex that had Dr. Dre’s “Dre Day” on the A-side no fewer than a half-dozen times…
Miss Rona is not stopping Megan Thee Stallion. “We’re not gonna say that!” she jumps in, after I begin saying that it looks like summer 2020 might be cancelled. Her energy is infectious, even…
The world heard some of Don Toliver’s earliest music before even his own mom did. Secrecy was a kind of protection he put in place to ensure that when his songs finally reached her ears,…
In this episode of Complex World, we breakdown the defund the police movement and how it works. We also explain what divest / invest strategies are and how organizations around the country seek to…
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