A person’s twenties are a rough time period. There’s confusion in changing platitudes, frustrations (physical, emotional, sexual, spiritual, etc.), lingering feelings of inadequacy, hatred at the norm, and maybe most of all the nagging feeling that something isn’t right. Nowhere you go, nothing you do, nobody you meet seems right, and you can’t quite place […]
Album Review: Common’s “Nobody’s Smiling”
I don’t know how to start this shit, yo… While this particular review has nothing to do with Nas, that famous line from Illmatic might be the best way for me to actually start this piece. For one, Common has been one of my favorite artists for a long time now; at one point he was […]
Weight in Words: Redux 