Talk about Janelle Monae’s new album The Age of Pleasure and leaning into a more erotic vision of her work. 

Talk about the history of artists becoming their full erotic selves when they hadn’t previously.

Discuss Jade Gomez time at Paper as editor and where the closing of it leaves the world of music coverage. 

Discuss the art of the artist feature/interview and what it does for a career as well as the dangers of messing it up.

Discuss the state of music media coverage and 2023 music. 

Discuss Joshua Virtue’s immaculate last album RAMA.

Discuss the place intensity has in hip hop w/ Nacksaw Jim Duggan by Estee Nack, Midnight Oil by Sunmundi & Āthmaan, and REAL B*TCHES DON’T DIE! By Kari Faux as examples. 

Discuss the classic Richter album covers and what went into them. Misconceptions about photography as a medium and the power of photographic covers.

Discuss our favorite album covers of 2023 so far.

Discuss Alaska Atoms monster 2023 collaborative albums w/ Steel Tipped Dove and Jason Griff. 

Discuss the influence of Del on a craft and stylistic level. 

Discuss the characteristics of Del that make his music so unique and vibrant. 

Discuss the coming together of these albums and artistic origin stories for Nonazz, Klwn Cat, and No God. 

Discuss Don’t Go Outside and NODUO in depth. 

Talk with SonRaw about any trends in 2023 music. 

Discuss Raven by Kelela, Glorious Game by Black Thought x El Michels Affair, and Shadow Moses by Mike Shabb x Nicholas Craven.

Discuss Tokyo Cigar’s relationship to Raekwon & specifically the Immobilarity album, why he chose to do a full remix project. 

Break down the skills, tendencies, and influence of Raekwon. 

Discuss going from Double Down to Mourning Due and what the goals were going into the new project and whether those came out as intended or entirely different.

Discuss Mourning Due in depth. 

Talk to Rhys Langston and Child Actor about the momentous releases they’ve been involved w/ and how they viewed the lyricism executed and how it was received.

Talk about the role of lyricism and how the press, audience, artists, and producers should approach it.