In 2015, The Rap Year Book was released chronicling the evolution of rap from 1979 – 2014, highlighting the most influential song from every year and written by the hysterical Shea Serrano.  It included giants like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Notorious B.I.G., N.W.A. but also shone newer talent with Big Sean, Macklemore and Rich […]

Karen O and the Evolution of Asian American Identity

As a child growing up in Hawai’i, the term “closed off” was an understatement.  My island bubble, the capitol of both slipper-wearing and of Asian and Polynesian dominance; fighting the juxtaposition of being a part of the United States and somehow existing culturally separate for so long, perhaps (definitely) led to my teenage-Asian American-Pacific Islander […]