It's been 3 years since Drakeo's murder. There will be no celestial reversals, but there remains the hope of justice, which Drakeo lacked in both life and death. I wrote about the search for answers, his enduring legacy & those keeping the truth alive. latimes.com/entertainment-…

For MusicRadar I dived into the making of Kendrick Lamar's seminal record 'To Pimp A Butterfly' 10 years on from its release, and had a good chat with yousef about why it's such a special album musicradar.com/artists/theres…

"In America, the only images I was fed were Hollywood caricatures shot in San Bernardino or two-dimensional maps from cable news channels meant to show the locations of 'insurgents.'" yousef traces the abstraction of death in post-9/11 America. lareviewofbooks.org/article/fear-l…

i wrote about fear, loathing, war, and “peace,” for Los Angeles Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org/article/fear-l…

great stuff from the good homie

20 min before i was commissioned to write this piece, i found out my family’s dog died. two hours later, i learned that trump had bombed iran and waged war against the middle east (once again). in honor of the late great hst, i wrote about my own fear and loathing in los angeles