Month: June 2017

Why You Should Buy My New Book, “Hip-Hop Scholar”

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date June 27, 2017
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I know what you’re thinking.

Tags Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Scholar, Rap, Self-Publishing, Writing

Hip-Hop Rap

Revisiting the Best Rap Rankings from the 100th Issue of “The Source” [January 1998]

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date June 22, 2017
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For most of the ’90s, there was really only one hip-hop magazine that truly mattered.

Tags Best of, Hip-Hop, LL Cool J, Rap, The Source

NBA

2017 NBA Finals Bullet Points

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date June 13, 2017
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Just as I did last year, here are my quick-hit thoughts on the 2017 NBA Finals:

Tags Cleveland Cavaliers, Golden State Warriors, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, NBA Finals, Steph Curry

Life

The Ultimate Life Hack? A Dark, Quiet Room

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date June 7, 2017
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“Anything in my life that I would recommend to someone else just to make their life better? An underrated thing that you can do that no one does anymore: just sit in a dark room. Give yourself, like, twenty minutes, don’t meditate, actually think about things, and I feel like…if you have a bunch of problems in your life, it’s amazing how twenty minutes alone in a dark room in the middle of the day can change everything.“

– Chuck Klosterman on the How To Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black podcast