“Okie from Muskogee: Recorded ‘Live’ in Muskogee, OK” is a superb and insightful book, one that rejected easy classification, like its subject Merle Haggard.
With pop culture being so easily ingestable, there is bound to be some insufferable fans. Coop takes a look at how and why some fandoms are becoming toxic.
"Weird Al"'s genius goes beyond changing the lyrics to popular songs–he stacks lowbrow references on top of high brow ones, combining cheesy and clever comedy into something that transcends the source material.
On “Adam and Eve,” Nas says, “I’m good at existing,” and that’s exactly what he’s doing with this batch of Kanye produced songs known as Nasir. Just existing.