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ugh, my bad. i didn't do enough clicking.

No Cigar :: Four Overlooked ’90s Albums The poet Matt Cook wrote: “It was pretty easy to write the Great American Novel when there were only about five American novels.”

just for you
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Caltrops Quotable ~ RAMA A luminous verse for the month of October 2025

I absolutely love this idea from @caltropspress.bsky.social , to say nothing of the verse from RAMA

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dang, you are relentless! congrats!

𝘿𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙪𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙨' 𝙂𝙊𝙇𝙇𝙄𝙒𝙊𝙂

ᴄᴀʟᴛʀᴏᴘꜱ ɪꜱꜱᴜᴇ 23
available now

including the final installment of my writings on the album

32 pages with a staple-bound, kraft cardstock cover

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i've got it...do a zine! i can help

Return to the Teknohell 95 Defragmented Rap Theses on Sunmundi & Sasco’s "Contacting"

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ℝ𝕖𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕟 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕋𝕖𝕜𝕟𝕠𝕙𝕖𝕝𝕝:
95 ᴅᴇꜰʀᴀɢᴍᴇɴᴛᴇᴅ ʀᴀᴘ ᴛʜᴇꜱᴇꜱ ᴏɴ ꜱᴜɴᴍᴜɴᴅɪ & ꜱᴀꜱᴄᴏ’ꜱ "ᴄᴏɴᴛᴀᴄᴛɪɴɢ"

thee album of the year courtesy of
Sunmundi & @sascomusic.bsky.social

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read [incl. footnotes!] + subscribe [if u desire]

RAPS + CRAFTS #41: ÅGHETTOPHĮLOSØPHER 1.

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ＲＡＰＳ ＋ ＣＲＡＦＴＳ ＃４１:
ÅGHETTOPHĮLOSØPHER

one of the most talented eMCees operating today: a relentless, catch reckless, rhizomatically rhyming within the static microphone fiend.

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BRING THE [HARSH] NOISE [WALL] Adjacencies & Accentuations & Alsos of Defrag Rap

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ʙʀɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ [ʜᴀʀꜱʜ] ɴᴏɪꜱᴇ [ᴡᴀʟʟ]:
ᴬᵈʲᵃᶜᵉⁿᶜⁱᵉˢ & ᴬᶜᶜᵉⁿᵗᵘᵃᵗⁱᵒⁿˢ & ᴬˡˢᵒˢ ᵒᶠ ᴰᵉᶠʳᵃᵍ ᴿᵃᵖ

words on the continued racket, rips, + panics of...

UURYDON
ÅGHETTOPHĮLOSØPHER
MILLENIUM
herratic
Fatboi Sharif
GDP

who let it die? not me!

Copies will be available, in-person, at the
@freemusicempire.bsky.social showcase in Brooklyn on 8/15/25 at Young Ethel’s. (A grip of the sage green version will be preserved for this occasion.)

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Caltrops Issue 22: The Birth of Defrag Rap is available for order now.

-Sage green cardstock cover (limited to 50 copies).
-Staple-bound
-Cover photography by Suchi
-28 pages

IT’S GOTTA BE THE SHOES billy woods’ Footwork on “Born Alone”

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ɪᴛ’ꜱ ɢᴏᴛᴛᴀ ʙᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱʜᴏᴇꜱ:
𝚋𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚠𝚘𝚘𝚍𝚜’ 𝙵𝚘𝚘𝚝𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔 𝚘𝚗 “𝙱𝚘𝚛𝚗 𝙰𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎”

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self-explanatory

it's happening...

yes, that's accurate. i think the media outlets have made decisions to promote the work of up-and-comers who are undeserving when there's a plethora of very interesting and adventurous work being done elsewhere. market-driven forces, i assume. playing to the least common denominator, i suspect.

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗛 𝗢𝗙 𝗗𝗘𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗚 𝗥𝗔𝗣:
ɴᴏᴛᴇꜱ ᴏɴ ᴀɴ ᴇᴍᴇʀɢᴇɴᴛ ꜱᴜʙ[ᴛᴇʀʀᴀɴᴇᴀɴ]ɢᴇɴʀᴇ

a critikal + choral look at the incendiary recent work of...

shemar
Outside House
KLG Klergé
xdeadbeat
Snotnoze Saleem
MILLENIUM
ÅGHETTOPHĮLOSØPHER

i know, right? doesn't this guy have an editor?

whatcha reading?

hippity hop

it's me

yes