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Announcing: The 2025 CABBAGES Readers' Poll The one time of year where YOU get to weigh in with your favorite independent hip-hop/rap acts and works. Act right.

It's only been a couple of hours, but vigorous early voting is showing some clear favorites in the indie hip-hop/rap field. Want to weigh in with your own ballot? www.cabbageshiphop.com/announcing-t...

Announcing: The 2025 CABBAGES Readers' Poll The one time of year where YOU get to weigh in with your favorite independent hip-hop/rap acts and works. Act right.

Yes, it's October, but we're opening up the CABBAGES Readers' Poll ballot box to take your votes for the year's best of the best in independent hip-hop/rap music.
www.cabbageshiphop.com/announcing-t...

I mean, we have to presume a deluxe or otherwise expanded edition of the album is coming, no?

Holy shit congrats

Break The Song Down: Honky Tonk Man's "Cool, Cocky and Bad" Music has been an intrinsic part of professional wrestling. In Break The Song Down, we revisit the music that has echoed throughout the squared circle, from

I made my debut for The Stunner today with the start of a new column, BREAK THE SONG DOWN. The life of a showgirl? Nope, the life of a Honky Tonk Man.

This poet turns 36 years old in December.

Longtime subscriber here. I have like three of them!

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03 Greedo and Zaytoven did the damn thing youtu.be/Pik0TeoHvS4?...

a bearded man in a seersucker jacket and white button-down wearing glasses and a red "Hell Gate" hat stares off in front of a smoky lit background. ABOVE him reads A HIP HOP MOVIE PODCAST THE CABBAGES MACHINE WHERE KAYFABE MEETS KUBRICK MEETS KILLA CAM

CABBAGES Season Premiere October 14

Watch full episode video on YouTube or listen wherever you get podcasts. www.youtube.com/@cabbageship...

It 1000% is.

SEA WORLD ABU DHABI

ANOTHER RAP SHOW #14 is this Thursday in Brooklyn! Another Planet (Phiik & Lungs), Rhys Langston, Imani Nichele, Noir Red. You’d be silly to miss this quite frankly.

WHERE KAYFABE MEETS KUBRICK MEETS KILLA CAM

On October 14, the CABBAGES Hip-Hop Podcast returns... with a vengeance.

Watch full episode video on YouTube or listen wherever you get podcasts.

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"I brought my own mic."

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Cropping Up: CARRTOONS The Brooklynite discusses his soul x hip-hop x jazz LP 'Space Cadet.' +reviews of The Expert, ZelooperZ

Today at CABBAGES, I interviewed CARRTOONS, a producer you're going to keep hearing about more and more. www.cabbageshiphop.com/carrtoons-in...

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If anything, people who take principled stances are punished for it. Just about everyone I know who ditched Substack over its platforming of transphobes and Nazis is making less money off their newsletters elsewhere than if they'd stayed put.

The thing I've learned about principled stances is that most people soon forget you ever took one.

They'll all be dropping in at the Comedy Store and the Mothership and the Cellar. They'll continue to perform for paying crowds across America, weekend after weekend. What's worse, you'll keep the TV on when they appear on your favorite new show.

If you think these Riyadh Comedy Festival blood money sellouts are going to lose any discernible amount of work or revenue over this, you don't know shit about shit.

YouTube video by Nonesuch Records Jeff Parker & The New Breed - Max Brown (Film by Mikel Patrick Avery)

Just watched this gorgeous video for the song Max Brown by guitarist (and Tortoise member) Jeff Parker. Three people (probably in their 50s) dress up, then groove alone to Parker's tune. It's all about interiors: of their dancing, in private; of their New Orleans homes. A quietly joyful experience.

I've seen it. This guy has ISSUES.

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I think my favorite thing about this utterly awful AI slop calling itself an official Gucci Mane music video is that Harmony Korine's EDGLRD studio didn't even manage to spell the song title correctly. youtu.be/HPEpvuzKH30?...

Forgot where I’d heard that name before: “Jasmine Ray, the new Director of the Mayor’s Office of Sports, Wellness, and Recreation, was authorized to continue working as a consultant for the Cornerstone Daycare in Brooklyn. The previous year, when Ray served as the daycare’s executive director, she won a $4.7 million contract to provide pre-K services to New York City kids.”

Five months after Ray took her new job at City Hall, the Cornerstone Daycare was temporarily shut down after health inspectors found some of the childcare staff were watching kids without paperwork documenting proper background checks. The Adams Administration would not say how long the closure lasted but said payment to the daycare was withheld for the days it was closed. Shawna Farquaharson said the daycare closure forced her to find alternative childcare for her son and she questioned whether City Hall was wise to allow Jasmine Ray to split time between two roles. “I feel like it took her away from Cornerstone a lot more. We needed her to step up and be the director of Cornerstone and she was not there for that,” said Farquaharson. Tina Graham, another parent who had to deal with the daycare closure, said she believed Jasmine Ray was still effectively managing the Pre-K program, even though the conflict waiver labeled her as a consultant. “She was still in charge. They would not make any big decisions without her,” Graham said. “I feel like she wanted the [City Hall] job, but she turned a blind eye to what was going on at the daycare.” After the Adams administration declined to share full records of the daycare inspections resulting in daycare service interruptions, the I-Team filed a request under New York’s Freedom of Information Law seeking those documents. Jasmine Ray declined the I-Team’s request for an interview, but in a written statement she suggested she had only a minor role at the daycare when it was temporarily closed down.

Oh, and I'll just leave this here, re: Jasmine Ray and the perpetually disgraced Mayor Eric Adams.

The timing of Ray's resignation Friday, Adams' abruptly abandoning his mayoral bid Sunday, this imminently self-published "tell-all" book announcement today... whewww!

US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’ Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abuses

As usual, Humorism writer Seth Simons is at the forefront of calling out comics on their bullshit. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

You can't spell "diFfiCult" without Christiand Finneganul

The new issue of ANTICS is almost here, featuring our cover stars Wednesday, and sharp features on shame, Asher White, Ganser, Hotline TNT, Pool Kids, Water From Your Eyes, and much, much more, all beautifully designed by YHWH Nailgun's Jack Tobias. It's made with love. Do enjoy.

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