Blue Scholars

I can recall eating a particularly delicious lumpia once, sometime in 2003, in a long-gone spot in downtown Seattle called the Vesper Lounge—at the original CD release for the self-released, self-titled album from Seattle crew Blue Scholars. The beer was cold, the lumpia hot, and the stage was nonexistent; rather, it was a cleared-out space […]

I remember when hiphop was young. Granted, I don’t actually remember the early days of the genre, but I do remember when it was young to me. I remember listening to A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul every day for years, I remember the 36 Chambers, and I remember the conscious underground. But […]