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RAP DREAM JOURNAL, 2023-2025

Other people's dreams are boring, but dreams with rappers in them are pretty good.

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Rap Dream Journal :: 2023-25
Other people's dreams are boring, but what about dreams with rappers in them?
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Decided my autobiography should be called “One Ball Ache After Another.”
October 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
RAP DREAM JOURNAL, 2023-2025

Other people's dreams are boring, but dreams with rappers in them are pretty good.

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Rap Dream Journal :: 2023-25
Other people's dreams are boring, but what about dreams with rappers in them?
open.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
They’re also running ICE recruitment ads.

It took me five minutes to transfer playlists to YouTube Music—and the sound is noticeably better too. You have no excuse.
Ah, yes. Music products. I think everyone can relate to that feeling of driving down the road, windows down, listening to music product.
October 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
October 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Look what I became, god don’t make mistakes see

youtu.be/6TX0kaDKBzo?...
Conway The Machine - Fear Of God (Audio) ft. DeJ Loaf
YouTube video by ConwayTheMachineVEVO
youtu.be
October 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The Passenger
October 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind!
October 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Yes, it's October, but we're opening up the CABBAGES Readers' Poll ballot box to take your votes for the year's best of the best in independent hip-hop/rap music.
www.cabbageshiphop.com/announcing-t...
Announcing: The 2025 CABBAGES Readers' Poll
The one time of year where YOU get to weigh in with your favorite independent hip-hop/rap acts and works. Act right.
www.cabbageshiphop.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men!
September 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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The Sound Conspirator
el pánico de Satanás
October 2nd Bandcamp
October 3rd streaming
September 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
DOPE OF THE MONTH CLUB :: AUGTEMBER 2025

Wrote about ten recent joints from:
Gabe 'Nandez x Preservation
@premrock.bsky.social x Curly Castro x co.
Fatboi Sharif
$ilkmoney
Tokyo Cigar x Son Raw
Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire
Cool Calm Pete

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Dope of the Month Club :: Augtember 2025
Ten joints for your autumnal pleasures. Wait, that sounds kinda erotic, I didn't mean it like that.
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September 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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an extensive (with links) guide of resources for movement resistance compiled by various collectives & individuals that might be of use to those on the front lines & on the ground.

suggest you keep this separately in a searchable bookmark format.
Resources for resistance
A collection of guides for fighting back.
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September 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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there’s no way to stop my singing in this world but to cut my throat. And when that’s done, ten to one I sing ye the doxology for a wind-up
August 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I was OK with all the “I was -5 years old when Criminal Minded dropped” people but having a tough time with “I was -5 years old when The Cold Vein dropped.” (Those people are 19 years old btw.)
August 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Uploads e-books directly to app stores too. Get ready for a tsunami of slop, everywhere in everything.
August 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
New @shitaobeat.bsky.social joint remixing AKAI SOLO with some Odyssey type beats, check it

shitao.bandcamp.com/album/lone
LONE, by Shitao
18 track album
shitao.bandcamp.com
August 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I know time happens…things happen…actors are not their characters…but just really depressed to learn the (now grown up obviously) little girl in Ghost Dog has an OnlyFans now.
August 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Album of the Week: Shrapknel have delivered three new albums with three different producers - 'Lincoln Continental Breakfast,' 'Saisir le feu', and 'Armature', each showcasing a different side of their overwhelming, thrilling hip-hop sound

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August 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Madlib (except for the DOOM records.)
what is the band that is most like the stuff you like that you nevertheless hate. or dislike. for me it’s Fleet Foxes. seems obvious i should like them but i DONT
August 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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We back up. What's Good is live with new joints from Gabe 'Nandez & Preservation, Evidence, Marissa Nadler, Sudan Archives, Recoechi, The Cool Kids, and much much more. Tap in with me, if you would.

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What's Good (Week of 8/10)
Back to normal (for the blog) with new music from Evidence, Gabe 'Nandez & Preservation, The Cool Kids, Recoechi, YL, clipping., Jay Som, Sudan Archives, Marissa Nadler, Kal Banx, Tokyo Cigar & Son Ra...
blog.djregular.tech
August 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Eyeopening walkthrough of DC by this creator. If you aren’t in DC, worth a watch all the way to the end—
August 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is why AI can never replace genius copywriting and where can I stream this show immediately
August 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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"This is why those 'P.S.K.' drums had to be so huge, so block-rocking [...] The drums thud, they echo, they overlap, they stop and start, Godzilla foot drums" elmattic.substack.com/p/saturday-n... @elmattic.bsky.social
Saturday Night! The Philosophy :: on Schoolly D
For the 40th anniversary of "P.S.K.," some words on Schoolly D, my man Psycho Willie, the Apollonian and Dionysian.
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August 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Words of advice for young people
youtu.be/aia3b1AFcTU?...
William S Burroughs- 14 Words Of Advice For Young People
YouTube video by GatherSound
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August 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM