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My guest this week is New York journalist and author, Thomas Golianopoulos. We spoke about watching movies on cable, the virtues of the movie theater experience, a handful of moments from his career as a journalist for outlets like Complex, Pitchfork, and Grantland, all things John Singleton—from his films to his personal life and as much as we could fit into this conversation—and the creative process behind Golianopoulos’s debut book, The Life of Singleton: From Boyz N The Hood to Snowfall, out now via AndScape Books and Penguin House Publishing. Come fuck with us.

My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.

Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and fuck the system.

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My guest this week is Brooklyn-via-Jersey City rapper-producer Merkeba. We spoke about Hard Boiled and the works of John Woo, the art of making food, Elmo in Grouchland, growing up between JC and Atlanta, how his love for spoken word poetry and film led him to rap, performing pain in music, and the creative process behind his debut EP Mandolin and his debut album a Metal Snake. Come fuck with us. 

Mandolin and a Metal Snake are available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping both off of Merkeba's Bandcamp. Follow Merkeba on Instagram (@merkeba_) and Twitter (@merkeba201)  

My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.

Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and fuck the system.

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My guest this week is New York rapper Salimata. We spoke about Frankenstein, the Puppet Master movies, The Departed, why she prefers movies that have bad or sad endings to happy endings, how she’s come to appreciate French film since she’s moved to France, starting rapping in the Tumblr era, linking with MIKE and 10k, refining her style, and the creative process behind her latest album The Happening, out now on 10k Global. Come fuck with us.

The Happening is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Salimata's Bandcamp. Follow Salimata on Instagram (@eet_it_off_me) and Twitter (@eat_it_offme).

My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.

Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and fuck the system.

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My guest this week is Maryland rapper Heno. We spoke about Monk, Bored to Death, and several other detective shows, Sinners, the MCU, growing up in an Ethiopian-Eritrean household in the DMV, rap keeping him out of trouble, being a nomad, touring Europe this past spring with Oddisee, building his connection with Oddisee and producer Mad Keys, and the creative process behind his latest projects Healing Out Loud, produced entirely by Mad Keys, and the upcoming Now That’s What I Call Heno!, Vol. 1. Come fuck with us.

Healing Out Loud is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Mad Keys's Bandcamp page. Now That's What I Call Heno! Vol. 1 will be available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen soon. Follow Heno. on Instagram and Twitter (@mynameisheno) and TikTok (@henoismyname). Follow Mad Keys on Twitter (@madkeys__), Instagram and TikTok (@madkeys_).

My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.

Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and fuck the system.

Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all platforms.   

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My guest this week is South African rapper Rap Man Gavin. We spoke about Perfect Blue, The French Dispatch, Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy, The Blair Witch Project, how Lil Wayne and Wiz Khalifa helped him fall in love with rap, finding his voice in South Africa, making a mark in the American indie rap scene, and the creative process behind his latest album Scrolling Through The Doom, produced entirely by LU! Come fuck with us.

Scrolling Through The Doom is available now wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Gavin's Bandcamp page. Follow Gavin on Instagram and Twitter: @gaaavie 

My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.

Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and fuck the system.

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My guest this week is Canadian rapper and host of Hip-Hop Evolution, Shad. We spoke about Highest 2 Lowest and the works of Spike Lee, An American Tale, Welcome to The Dollhouse and the works of Todd Solondz, his work on Hip-Hop Evolution, the 20th anniversary of his debut album When This Is Over, balancing having a message with having fun, the overarching narrative of his last three albums, A Short Story About a War, TAO, and the creative process behind the third, and his latest, album, Start Anew. Come fuck with us.

Start Anew is available now wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping it directly from Shad's Bandcamp. Follow Shad on Instagram and Twitter: @shadkmusic

My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.

Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and fuck the system.

Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all platforms.

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My guests this week are New York-via-DC rapper billy woods and Queens rapper-producer E L U C I D, otherwise known as Armand Hammer. In their Take Two episode, we spoke about One Battle After Another, the relationship between Hollywood and the state, the Zambian dark comedy On Becoming A Guinea Fowl, the Anthony Hopkins-starring Magic, their recent LA release show, and the creative process behind their latest album Mercy. Come fuck with us. 

Mercy will be available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen on Friday, November 7. Pre-order the album via Bandcamp or the Backwoodz Studioz website now. Follow Armand Hammer on Instagram and Twitter: @ArmandHammerNYC. Follow E L U C I D on Instagram (@cobratoof) and Twitter (@elucidwho). Follow woods on Instagram (@backwoodzstudioz) and Twitter (@BackwoodzHipHop).

Read my profile of Backwoodz, How billy woods's Backwoodz Studioz Became New York's Best Underground Rap Label, via Pitchfork.

My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.

Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and fuck the system.

Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly

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If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (BUY IT THROUGH A WEB BROWSER OR THE PATREON ANDROID APP, NOT VIA THE PATREON iOS APP. YOU'LL GET CHARGED EXTRA MONEY AND IT WILL TAKE LONGER TO PROCESS.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more!

My guests this week are New Orelans-via-Philadelphia producer Wino Willy and Philadelphia rapper FOHDH Matthew. We spoke about One Battle After Another, Fantastic Four: First Steps, Power Rangers, Bad Boys, Belly, their respective paths through hip-hop and Philly, mixing the fly with the thoughtful and Black liberation theology, working with Backwoodz, and the creative process behind their collaborative album Matthew Gets Sick Of Cheap Wine and Prefers Gruaud-Larose 1945. Come fuck with us.

Matthew Gets Sick Of Cheap Wine and Prefers Gruaud-Larose 1945 is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping it directly via the Grilchy Party Bandcamp. Follow Wino Willy on Instagram (@winowilly), Twitter (@winowilly_), and TikTok (@winovision). Follow Matthew on Instagram: @fohdhmatthew. 

My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.

Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and fuck the system.

Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all platforms. 

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My guest this week is California-via-Philly rapper, producer, and graphic designer, Dewey Bryan. We spoke about the Devo documentary on Netflix, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Good Boy, Point Break, several other 90s movies, his affinity for east coast and west coast rap, his career in indie rap, his illustrious graphic design career, especially his work with Anderson .Paak, and the creative process behind he and producer Earoh’s album Beach Burners. Come fuck with us.

Beach Burners is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow Dewey on Instagram and Twitter (@deweysaunders) or TikTok (@officialdeweybryan), and be sure to check out beachburners.com for all things Beach Burners. 

My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.

Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and fuck the system.

Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all platforms    

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If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (BUY IT THROUGH A WEB BROWSER OR THE PATREON ANDROID APP, NOT VIA THE PATREON iOS APP. YOU'LL GET CHARGED EXTRA MONEY AND IT WILL TAKE LONGER TO PROCESS.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more!

My guest this week is Portland, Oregon rapper and co-host of the Good Talk podcast, Milc. We spoke about Highest 2 Lowest, One Battle After Another, The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, the filmography of Will Smith, embracing rap and basketball from a young age, working as a rapper and podcaster, and the creative processes behind three of his projects: The Fish That Saved Portland, produced by Televangel, Affordable Luxuries, produced by Chuck Strangers under the duo name Bad Tofu, and Run for the Arts, produced by Spinitch. Come fuck with us.

Run for the Arts is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Three Dollar Pistol's Bandcamp page. Follow Milc on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok (@milcmane).  

My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.

Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and fuck the system.

Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all platforms    

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