ThanksICouldHelpBro

You write a lot (and very insightfully) about rap music as a white dude. Rap music has obviously been an art form driven by Black creators, often for a Black audience. How does this change how you write about rap music?

(For example, do you ever not write about a rap news topic, or at least refrain from giving your opinion, specifically because you are white? Do you ever hesitate in being critical of Black creators because you are white?)

For the record, I think you've done a good job of acknowledging your limitations without hand waving difficult topics, e.g. MJ and R Kelly.

Hey Tom. Been keeping up with The Number Ones since I discovered it when you were in the early 70s. Great stuff. Also loved your AV Club movie columns (I sent a bunch of the box office champs ones to my friends.)

Question: I could have sworn you wrote a column for some online magazine about the most important rap album of every year, but I can't find that now. I also recall the articles stopping before it reached the present. Do those articles still exist, and why did you stop writing them? I assume the site decided to stop its freelance writing?

Have you seen https://twitter.com/snlhostsintro and is it also your favorite thing?