Back in college, I first wrote about Haru Nemuri’s Shunka Ryougen for a music column I led on behalf of my university website. Sitting across from the poetry rapper and her team nearly ten months later inside of a WeWork in downtown Austin, I struggled to articulate how important the project meant to me as […]
Solomon WOOK, also known as Wesley Jin, is a rapper with quite a few nicknames. Throughout his rap career, he’s garnered up Wook Sama, the BTS Reject, and most recently: Wisenberg, a portmanteau of WOOK with Heisenberg, the nickname of TV show Breaking Bad’s main character. “WISENBERG” carries the atmosphere of a party scene (similar […]
Rapper Jason Chu released a 10-track album perfect for at-home listening called living.room on June 2020. Four years since releasing his last solo album, Arrivals, and since joining trap-rap group, NITEMRKT, he returns to his roots of laying down terse bars over well-crafted hooks. Chu has been working on this album since early last year, 2019, but when things drastically changed with the […]
Chinese American singer/rapper Demie Cao sure knows how to make an entrance. On the singer’s US debut “YUNG” released back in May, she’s established that much. An ode to youth and all of the carefree perks that come with it, “YUNG” announced Cao’s arrival with scuffed-up R&B, breezy raps, and a sleek white NSX. Now, […]
Rapper Casper Sun (Edward Chao) is a spontaneous workaholic. He’s an artist that doesn’t like to sit still for long, and he’s always thinking about his next project. “Right now my task list is like… 12 tasks deep!” he tells me. While we sip slow, self-roasted afternoon tea–an ironic activity to talk over considering his […]