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RECESS  |  CULTURE MUSIC

The album length war

By Ben Brutocao | November 27, 2019

In January 2018, Migos dropped all 106 minutes of “Culture II.”

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RECESS  |  CULTURE MUSIC

Freestyles: Carefully labored effortlessness

By Ben Brutocao | November 20, 2019

To many, the term freestyling immediately inspires a vision of the XXL Freshman yearly cypher, prompting nostalgia of Kodak Black’s trouncing of whoever picked that “lil sorry a** beat.”

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RECESS  |  CAMPUS

‘The Infiltrators’ is a unique mix of documentary and reenactment that addresses the immigration crisis

By Ben Brutocao | November 8, 2019

Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra’s “The Infiltrators” follows a group of teenagers working to release undocumented immigrants from the Broward Detention Center just north of Miami.

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RECESS  |  CULTURE MUSIC

The golden faucet: broken by design

By Ben Brutocao | October 23, 2019

The SWAT van parks and eight burly agents file out in silence.

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RECESS  |  CULTURE MUSIC

The Big Apple’s B.I.G vacuum: How New York is reviving rap after its ‘90s heyday

By Ben Brutocao | October 4, 2019

Surely a city as prominent as New York would have made a full musical recovery by now and is once again dictating the sounds and styles of the whole game. Right?

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RECESS  |  CULTURE MUSIC

The Machiavellian militancy of Playboi Carti

By Ben Brutocao | September 28, 2019

As he lounges in his throne room atop Mount Olympus being fed molly-coated grapes, Jordan Carter — the figurehead of Playboi Carti — reflects.

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SoundCloud rap: An intro to an obscenely powerful movement

By Ben Brutocao | September 20, 2019

In 2007, when the artist duo Forss created SoundCloud, they could never have imagined that their creation would change how people think about music forever.

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