In Chicago rapper Saba’s first album, Bucket List Project, every hopeful melody was imbued with a sense of urgency. The skits that bookend many of the tracks feature vocal snippets from different collaborators on the album, answering the question, “what’s on your bucket list?” Even in good times, these skits revealed an artist profoundly aware …
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MF DOOM and the Value of Inside Baseball
I often hear the apologetic phrase “this is inside baseball,” in media, representing the reluctance of hosts to spend too much time talking about the annoyances of their microphones or Skype. This, at first glance, makes sense; you listen to Accidental Tech Podcast for the tech, and not meta-commentary about the making of the tech …