Fuck all that noise about my having to beef with the Village Voice on some Boston Phoenix alt-weekly rivalry shit. The fact is that I grew up reading the paper, and continue to do so. This dude Phillip Mlynar has been doing excellent work on the hip-hop front over there, and, more importantly, he’s not on some “Lil Boosie is so brilliant that even he doesn’t realize it” nonsense. Check his writer’s page, or some of his recent lists:

The Top Ten Best Worst Singing Rappers

The 10 Greatest Rap Songs About Video Games

Glee’s Ten Most Cringe-Worthy Rap Moments