Our dear friend Birdy joined us this week to talk about Nicki Minaj, the importance of Rihanna's "Needed Me" video, and Harriet Tubman being on the new 20 dollar bill. Also, we talk about our exciting visit to Roc Nation / Tidal HQ!

"I assume Justin Timberlake would be woke. That's now my metric for cool people."

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Part 2!

Part 1 of our conversation with Westside Ty the Beeper King who is the Fab Five Freddy of Los Angeles, the DJ for Vince Staples, and a respected non-denominational spiritual advisor. Make sure to check out Part 2! This is a very rare look inside the mind of the myth.

We are back with Season 2 of Mass Minimal! To kick things off we decided to catch up and talk about what happened over our break, Kanye, Rihanna, and Beyonce... all that really matters.

For our last episode of the season we sat down with Professor Michael Veal of Yale University to discuss Fela Kuti, the intersection of jazz and architecture, and seeing the order in the seeming chaos of the upheaval in Baltimore.

~INTERVIEW STARTS AT 6:45~

Yale professor, inaugural poet, essayist and, most recently, memoirist Elizabeth Alexander joins us for a discussion about Sly Stone, writing through catastrophe, and improvising on stage with Jason Moran. (Also, she says she likes Drake.)

Here is a review of her soon-to-be-released memoir "The Light of the World" in the Los Angeles Times: www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/…150405-story.html

This week we chat with Brook D'Leau (one half of J*Davey) about WebMD, "how ones starts to make beats," and Frank Zappa.

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For this special Yale Daily News feature, Zack and Jacob traveled to the Williamsburg headquarters of Genius (formerly Rap Genius) to speak with co-founders Tom Lehman and Ilan Zechory.