From the left of the map:
- A few good suggestions for distributing music journalism across digital platforms (wired.com)
- Proto-rap poet Amiri Baraka celebrates 75th birthday (nj.com)
- Pharrell Williams tries to turn N.E.R.D. into the next Black Eyed Peas (complex.com)
- Common works on The Believer with Kanye West and No I.D. (mtv.com via okayplayer.com)
- Roxanne Shante offers cryptic mea culpa regarding her fictitious Ph.D (urbandaily.com)
- Shepard Fairey’s “fair use” legal argument for the Obama “HOPE” poster begins to unravel (news.yahoo.com)
- SOHH.com launches “Hip Hop & Health Care” series (sohh.com)
Someone like me: The Physics, High Society (thephysicsmusic.com), Jern Eye’s Eye Exam (zshare.net), Duck Down Records sampler Download the Right Thing (duckdown.com), Diamond District’s Diamond Mixtape (zshare.net)