Jeff Weiss

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The Knux-"Bang! Bang!"

Since it's rare that I post something that hasn't already been shared by at least a half dozen other blogs, the fact that I've got the new Knux single first has me running around my apartment doing my Best DJ Clue impression. Granted, there are probably a few other places......
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An Interview with J Dilla's Mother, Ms. Maureen Yancey

A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece discussing the difficulties J Dilla's estate has had in enforcing copyright law and paying off the six-figure IRS debt left behind. In the aftermath of the story's publication, I had the chance to speak with his mother, Ms. Maureen Yancey about Dilla's......
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Pitchfork Day 3-I Now Pronounce You Hip-Stock

Every time I inasmuch as mention the word "hipster" on the blog these days, some Mensa Mind has to scrawl some stupid, scurrilous statement about how "maaan, all you do is stereotype hipsters and make egregious generalizations and you, Jeff Weiss, are the worst writer in the history of time......
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Pitchfork Festival Day 1-The Airing of Grievances

A Pitchfork seems like the appropriate emblem. After all, it's been a hellish last two days, culminating with this moment right now, my friends already having set off for the festival at the absurdly early crack of noon, abandoning me to pump Fela on my iPod in a Chicago Barnes......
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Weiss' Summer Jamz 08-G'Z Up, Prose Down

Summer Jamz '08: G'Z Up, Prose Down https://www.megaupload.com/?d=4NBDRWLQ 1.Parliament-“Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) 2.N.W.A.-“Alwayz Into Somethin’” 3.Dr. Dre-“Nuthin’ But a G Thang” 4.Above the Law ft. 2Pac & Money B-“Call It What U Want” 5.The Dove Shack-“Summertime in the LBC” 6.Domino-“Getto Jam” 7.The Twinz-“Round N’......
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Who’s Biting J Dilla’s Beats?

No art form lionizes its fallen quite like hip-hop. Forget Biggie and 2Pac. Their reputations were sealed the moment the doctors zipped the body bags — though...
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Weiss Muxtapes #7 and #8: I Can't Live Without My (Internet) Radio

Have you ever read this blog and wondered to yourself, hmm...this Jeff Weiss fellow has some self-righteous and ill-founded opinions, is it possible that he may be in the wrong medium? One would hope. Yet despite my repeated attempts to turn these misguided ideals into a viable run for the......