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Donwill on Staying in Your Life Bag: Rap, The Interview Game, and the Art of the Just-Outside-the-Frame Question

Donwill on Staying in Your Life Bag: Rap, The Interview Game, and the Art of the Just-Outside-the-Frame Question

Donwill shares his interview philosophy—asking what’s just outside the frame and foregrounding curiosity over trending topics—to keep hip ho...

The Quiet Storm, The Telecom Act, and R&B’s Slow Jams with Amani Roberts

The Quiet Storm, The Telecom Act, and R&B’s Slow Jams with Amani Roberts

This piece examines how the intimate, local flavor of the Quiet Storm era gave way to corporate playlists after the Telecommunications Act o...

From Schoolly D to N.W.A.: Queue Points' Notes on the N-Word in Rap

From Schoolly D to N.W.A.: Queue Points' Notes on the N-Word in Rap

Queue Points traces the n-word’s journey from its underground origins in the late 1970s through Schoolly D and N.W.A. to its mainstream prom...

When the Music Is the Door: Dr. York, NatureBoy, and the Through Line Between Charisma and Harm

When the Music Is the Door: Dr. York, NatureBoy, and the Through Line Between Charisma and Harm

Queue Points traces how charismatic figures like Dr. Malachi York and the NatureBoy persona influenced Black music culture from 1970s Brookl...

Seth Neblett on the Women Who Built Parliament-Funkadelic: A Legacy Hiding in Plain Sight

Seth Neblett on the Women Who Built Parliament-Funkadelic: A Legacy Hiding in Plain Sight

In this Queue Points episode, Seth Neblett discusses his book Mothership Connected: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic, uncovering how women...

“She Never Had To Scream To Be Heard”: Nick Bambach on Why Sade Belongs in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

“She Never Had To Scream To Be Heard”: Nick Bambach on Why Sade Belongs in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Nick Bambach argues that Sade’s enduring impact across quiet storm, R&B, smooth jazz, and pop defies easy classification, making their case ...

How Hip Hop Turned Trump into a Symbol of Wealth

How Hip Hop Turned Trump into a Symbol of Wealth

Queue Points traces how Donald Trump transformed from a New York businessperson into a pervasive symbol of wealth in Black music and culture...

Neneh Cherry, 'Buffalo Stance' and the Blueprint of Forever-Cool

Neneh Cherry, 'Buffalo Stance' and the Blueprint of Forever-Cool

Queue Points’ Neneh Cherry episode shows how Buffalo Stance fused hip hop, pop, and punk into a new, forever-cool blueprint, turning a burst...

Anita Baker’s “Rapture” Isn’t Just a Classic It’s Black Music History You Can Hear

Anita Baker’s “Rapture” Isn’t Just a Classic It’s Black Music History You Can Hear

Anita Baker’s Rapture isn’t just a classic; it’s a cornerstone of Black music history and a blueprint for crossover success that proved Blac...

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