Podcasts about Rising Down

Alexandra Harris has previously cast her probing critical eye over poetic and artistic responses to English weather (in Weatherland), and English art of the 1930s and 40s (in Romantic Moderns); now, in The Rising Down (Faber & Faber) she turns it on the West Sussex landscape of her childhood, revealing the layers of buried lives beneath a familiar landscape in a work which the Independent has described as ‘scholarship at its life-enhancing best'. Harris was in conversation with essayist and critic Laurence Scott, author of Picnic Comma Lightning and The Four Dimensional Human. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this chunky episode, we get into the work of The Roots where whilst we would make an effort to bomb through discographies for the sake of time, we simply couldn't for The Roots because they seemed to depart from their past album nearly every time. The subtle switches in their music over time would end up creating a wide reach. From "Jam Session" Hip-Hop to dense concept albums, it was certainly worth taking the time.TIMESTAMPS:Weekly Music Roundup - (1:08) (Ben = Bold / Charlie = Italics) Lil Uzi Vert - Pink Tape The Alchemist - Fly High Curren$y & Harry Fraud - Vices LUCKI - s*x m*ney dr*gs Conway - Drumwork Stu Bangas x Chino XL - God's Carpenter D-Block Europe - DBE World Itee - PAPERS Maeta - When I Hear Your Name Speech Debelle - Sunday Dinner On a Monday Elmiene - EL-MEAN Splurgeboys - Jet Pack Flows Meshell Ndegeocello - The Omnichord Real Book Terrace Martin - Fine Tune Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (16:56)Organix - (27:12)Do You Want More?!!!??! - (35:17)Illadelph Halflife - (44:37)Things Fall Apart - (57:27)Phrenology - (1:12:59)The Tipping Point - (1:23:04)Game Theory - (1:34:15)Rising Down - (1:40:59)How I Got Over - (1:46:37)"Undun" & "...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin" - (1:50:55)Ranking The Roots - (2:05:31)Lighter Note - (2:08:57)

Coot talks about The Roots' Rising Down album cover and the deep dark history behind it. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/datboycoot/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/datboycoot/support

Shownotes: This week, Matt and Cameron continue on to the Third and Final part of Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad! After 800 pages, we finally approach…the Battle of Stalingrad. Well, the best things come to those who wait. Grab your wartime moonshine of preference, get a move on toward the city, and don't forget to tune in! Major themes: Labyrinth of plots but make it depressing, Defamiliarization in art, The Origin of Tomatoes 00:51 - Check out Puppet Combo's Night Shit! Since it's now October (if, indeed, you're reading this in October), I'm ready to start shilling for indie developers I love. If you really want to get scared, check out more of Puppet Combo or my personal favorite dev, Kitty Horror Show. 01:35 - Check out this article about the event 06:06 - Ooh! The name of the book is “Rising Up and Rising Down,” but I was close. 08:31 - We're all gonna go ahead and ignore the mic change here. 01:00:56 - Luckily for Matt, we still can't afford to have all our episodes edited so this one was only heard in-house. The music used in this episode was “soviet march,” by Toasted Tomatoes. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. Follow us on Instagram, check out our website, if you're so inclined, check out our Patreon!

We had the pleasure of interviewing “Captain” Kirk Douglas over Zoom video.The Roots guitarist “Captain” Kirk Douglas issues a brand new single and music video entitled “We Can Be One” under his solo imprint Hundred Watt Heart. The New York-based GRAMMY® Award-winning guitarist and vocalist steps into the spotlight with this introspective and infectious anthem. The track hinges on a wah-pedal drenched funk riff, simmering beat, and boisterous horn section. It locks into an Afrobeat-infused strut as he repeats an undeniable and uplifting mantra on the hook, “We can be one.” The Alexander Fischetti-directed accompanying video captures this spirit and highlights Kirk's powerful presence as a frontman in his own right. It harnesses the track's psychedelic sound and influences from funk to jazz to jam and everything in between, establishing Kirk as a genre-defying master of his craft. Most importantly, “We Can Be One” paves the way for his anxiously awaited new full-length solo LP—due out very soon. Stay tuned for more from “Captain” Kirk Douglas. Audiences worldwide recognize “Captain” Kirk Douglas's scorching singular style as a six-string powerhouse. Joining The Roots back in 2003, he has supplied guitar and background vocals for a series of critically acclaimed Top 10 albums on the Billboard Top 200, including The Tipping Point [2004], Game Theory [2006], Rising Down [2008], How I Got Over [2010], and Wake Up! [2010] with John Legend. The latter garnered a pair of GRAMMY® Awards, namely “Best R&B Album” and “Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance” for “Hang On In There.” In addition, his guitar powered The Roots's tastemaker-approved …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin in 2014. Between countless sold-out live shows, he holds down guitar duties for the band nightly on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. He also notably forces with Gibson Guitars to release his own signature SG model. We want to hear from you! Please email Tera@BringinitBackwards.com. www.BringinitBackwards.com #podcast #interview #bringinbackpod #TheRoots #HundredWattHeart #CaptainKirkDouglas #NewMusic #zoom Listen & Subscribe to BiB https://www.bringinitbackwards.com/follow/ Follow our podcast on Instagram and Twitter! https://www.facebook.com/groups/bringinbackpod

The boys talk Seth's inexcusible behavior at the Saints Falcons game, the show Mo once again, the Emmy's, The new Lord of the Rings brought to you by Lord Bezos, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.Featured Music: Caribbean Queen by Billy Ocean Jesus Freak Lighter by Blood Orange

Ryan Alexander - Twitter @ryanhasbadtaste - Instagram @therepublicofbadtaste Vollmannia podcast @vollmannia coming in 2022 Gateway Books - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Hamlet - Goosebumps - Salem's Lot - Arguably - Christopher Hitchens TBR · The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk; translated by Jennifer L. Croft · The Plains, Inland, A Million Windows, Border Districts by Gerald Murnane · Doppelgänger, Leica Format, Trieste, Belladonna, EEG by Daša Drndić; translated by S.D. Curtis, Celia Hawkesworth, and Ellen Elias-Bursać · Vertigo, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald; translated by Michael Hulse and Anthea Bell · Mr. Theodore Mundstock, The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks; translated by Iris Urwin and Eva M. Kandler · Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories by Tadeusz Borowicki; translated by Madeline G. Levine · Satantango, The Melancholy of Resistance, War & War, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai; translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet · Like a Tear in the Ocean, Vols. I-III by Manès Sperber; translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon · The Book of Blam, The Use of Man, Kapo by Aleksandar Tišma; translated by Michael Henry Heim, Bernard Johnson, and Richard Williams · A Dreambook for Our Time, A Minor Apocalypse by Tadeusz Konwicki; translated by David Welsh and Richard Lourie · Nostalgia, Blinding, Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu; translated by Julian Semilian and Sean Cotter · Kin by Miljenko Jergović; translated by Russell Scott Valentino - Frost by Thomas Bernhard; translated by Michael Hofmann · The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz; translated by Celina Wieniewska · Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon · Lookout Cartridge, A Smuggler's Bible, Hind's Kidnap by Joseph McElroy Top 10 10. Women and Men by Joseph McElroy 9. The Doll's Alphabet by Camilla Grudova 8. How to Quiet a Vampire: A Sotie by Borislav Pekić; translated by Stephen M. Dickey and Bogdan Rakić 7. The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell; translated by Charlotte Mandell 6. Beloved by Toni Morrison 5. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle 4. Ice by Anna Kavan 3. Rising Up and Rising Down, Vol I: Three Meditations on Death, The Days of the Niblungs, Definitions for Lonely Atoms by William T. Vollmann 2. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace 1. Moby-Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville

As Jed likes to say "we had a blast!" -- and I believe he means it every time he says it. This convo was no exception to that tradition of him having a blast, except this time, I was hosting him on my show! So, we still did some talking records, but it was on my terms lol. Listen to us unravel the mysteries of which is the best Bad Religion album, and other scientific research by two education "specialists". Check out his podcast anywhere you listen to shows, and also give Chris from Less Than Jake some love for making the theme song for the show! Follow Jed online: instagram.com/talkingrecordspodcast and https://www.talkingrecordspodcast.com/ for theme songs and other custom music: instagram.com/lessthanchrisd or https://www.soundtalentmedia.com/show/chris-demakes-a-podcast/ MUSIC on this episode (aside from custom tracks made in house): First track: The Roots "Rising Down" feat. Mos Def, Styles, Dice Raw from their 2008 album Rising Down. Last track: No Intention "Once Again" from their album Bent Out of Shape ---------------------------------- WATER: shop at liquiddeath.com and use code FAMCAST at checkout! COFFEE: shop at essexcoffeeroasters.com use code FAMCAST at checkout! follow the show on instagram.com/thefamilycast and please support at patreon.com/familycast #SRRSS #punkchefpodcast #foodandmusicislifeyes Cheers! Thanks. ¡Salud! prost. adios. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/familycast/message

In this, the 90th installment of Wildcat Minute, Chandra and Tyler sit down to discuss the Minute 90 of High School Musical, in which Troy and Gabriella finish singing their song, and everyone cheers! We also discuss our DCOM of the week, Brink! Wildcat Minute is a production of the Amateur Nerds. Rate, review, subscribe, tell your friends! Follow us on Twitter @amateurnerds Email us amateurnerdspresent@gmail.com Logo by @tgoldenart Music by Joe Winslow

This week we’re discussing Black Thought and Questlove’s The Roots. While they are known these days for being the house band for the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Roots have a long, diverse, and fascinating discography. This is a rare artist for us to cover because they are still active and releasing albums, but an important band nonetheless. Dig it.Closing track: “You Got Me” from Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (2005)Check out our episode playlists on Spotify!https://open.spotify.com/user/motherpuncherincJoin our Patreon for bonus episodes, early access to shows, and more!https://www.patreon.com/everyalbumeverMerch available now!https://teespring.com/stores/pandermonkeyInstagram:Follow Mike @popejesseventura for show updates and @pandermonkey for original musicFollow Alex @motherpuncherMike’s Picks:Game Theory (2006) — Best Album…And Then You Shoot Your Cousin (2014) — Personal FavoriteRising Down (2008) — Worst AlbumIlladelph Halflife (1996) — Least FavoriteAlex’s Picks:Things Fall Apart (1999) — Best AlbumPhrenology (2002) — Personal FavoriteOrganix (1993) — Worst Album, Least FavoriteAlbums we discussed this episode…Organix (1993)Do You Want More?!!!??! (1995)Illadelph Halflife (1996)Things Fall Apart (1999)Phrenology (2002)The Tipping Point (2004)Game Theory (2006)Rising Down (2008)How I Got Over (2010)Undun (2011)…And Then You Shoot Your Cousin (2014)

We talk with critic Steven Moore, the world's leading scholar on William Gaddis and the man who helped edit David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest." We talk about his approach to criticism; his "hierarchy of reading;" the influence of Stuart Gilbert's book on "Ulysses;" his love of "Finnegans Wake;" the importance of Catholicism to Alexander Theroux; Moore's relationship with David Foster Wallace; Gaddis' connection to the Beat milieu and how Moore reviewed William T. Vollmann's "Rising Up and Rising Down," and more. Please check out Moore's new book on Theroux: http://zerogrampress.com/2020/03/30/alexander-theroux-a-fans-notes/ Music attribution: “Sunday Smooth" by Scott Buckley, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License - www.scottbuckley.com.au.

In this episode, Uday, Dinesh & I will Review of the 2nd & 3rd ODIs & the 1st T20I between India & Australia Go down the memory lane and talk about our favorite moments from the previous tours of India to Australia

Your Hosts This Episode: Patrique G.O.Z. In this episode Patrique is joined by G.O.Z. of RYM's Hip Hop discussion scene to discuss one of the most eclectic but also at times mislabelled groups in Rap: The Roots (and also Black Thought solo). The boys discuss everyone nook and cranny of The Roots expansive career and try to determine the perspectives many hold and have created for the self-instrumented group and also the continued rise of Black Thought as a prominent solo artist and force in the world of rap. Intro Music: Junclassic - "Borrowed Time (Instrumental)" Outro Music: Kankick - "Stagnated Pace" Edited / Produced by: Kittenpuke Find us on RYM through our provided Profile names! Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro Discussion 11:59 - Organix 23:38 - Do You Want More?!!!??! 36:22 - Illadelph Hallife 47:54 - Things Fall Apart 58:55 - Phrenology 1:09:56 - The Tipping Point 1:19:05 - Game Theory 1:28:43 - Rising Down 1:44:44 - How I Got Over 1:57:50 - Wake Up! w/ John Legend 2:00:48 - Kanye Time! and Joe Rogan Discussion 2:06:26 - Betty Wright: The Movie w/ Betty Wright 2:07:46 - Undun 2:16:48 - Money Making Jam Boys 2:21:04 - Wise Up Ghost w/ Elvis Costello 2:21:38 - Discussing Roots Members 2:26:08 - ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin 2:33:43 - Black Thought's Solo Career 2:34:52 - Streams of Thought Vol. 1 2:42:04 - Streams of Thought Vol. 2 2:51:11 - Streams of Thought Vol. 3 2:57:50 - Where Does Black Thought Rank? and Wrap Up

Katie and Nathan drop down into an interview done with Alden Ehnreich about his time on Solo, chase a womprat on anthology movies, talk about the Mandalorian Season 2 Trailer, and finally, shoot Chaos Rising Down in a review filled with theories.Star Wars Alliance Twitter: twitter.com/starwrsalliance Katie's Twitter: twitter.com/kgilstrap13 Nathan's Twitter: twitter.com/wobblyboots85 Slice of Film Twitter: twitter.com/sliceoffilm1 Katie's Website: slicerscribbles.com Follow the Geek Ultimate Alliance: twitter.com/guapodnetwork Follow the Super Civil Servants: twitter.com/scspodcast1 Follow Slice of Film: twitter.com/sliceoffilm1 Join the Grand Army of Podcasters! Support the Alliance on Patron: https://www.patreon.com/join/guanetwork

Today we met with Goldie, Amanda and Yence who run Phoenix Rising Metaphysical Shoppe in Langley. They share their insights on topics such as: what is magic, help define paganism, the importance of community and individualism, developing a spiritual connection and much else. It was great to meet with all three as they each had different perspectives on various topics. While their shoppe may be eccentric and "out-of-the-norm", they provide an environment that is educational, understanding and inclusive in the purest sense of the word. This came to me as quite a refreshing surprise and has piqued my interest in understanding and developing my spiritual well-being further. I hope you enjoy this podcast as well as check out their shoppe located at 20499 Fraser Hwy, Langley City. They are looking forward to meeting you!

In this episode of Bookin', host Jason Jefferies continues his conversation with National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann.  For the second part of this two-part conversation, Vollmann discusses his process narrative The Book of Delores, his historical Seven Dreams series, his National Book Award winning novel Europe Central, his San Francisco Tenderloin novels, his philosophy regarding his non-fiction works Poor People, Imperial and Rising Up and Rising Down, and the books that he is working on right now.  A selection of signed books by William T. Vollmann can be purchased at www.quailridgebooks.com/signedbooks

00:00 Check us out on Patreon while you still can 02:45 Maroon 5 at the Super Bowl Half Time Show 14:40 When did The Simpsons and South Park jump the shark? 19:27 Mel Brooks and Monty Python Movies 24:52 The Roots "Rising Down" Patreon Requested Album Reviews 52:50 Isaiah Rashad "The Sun's Tirade" Patreon Requested Album Review

00:00 Check us out on Patreon while you still can 02:45 Maroon 5 at the Super Bowl Half Time Show 14:40 When did The Simpsons and South Park jump the shark? 19:27 Mel Brooks and Monty Python Movies 24:52 The Roots "Rising Down" Patreon Requested Album Reviews 52:50 Isaiah Rashad "The Sun's Tirade" Patreon Requested Album Review

Tonight on Proper Propaganda: new tracks from Joey Purp & RZA, Redman, Sadat X & El Da Sensei, and more, but first, new from Logic, “The Return.” “The Return” Logic “Godbody Pt. 2” Joey Purp feat. RZA “Tear It Up” Redman “Jonylah Forever” Lupe Fiaco Intelrude: Sam Bee BG Music: “Dillatronic 33” by J Dilla “#NeverUseTheInternetAgain” Homeboy Sandman & Edan “Power Moves” Sadat X & El Da Sensei “Purge” Bas “Wake Up” Lexongod feat. Manny Chaalam “From the 718” Pete Miser “Public Service Announcement” Jay Z “Rough” Queen Latifah feat. KRS ONE Interlude: “The House” “Rising Down” The Roots “Big Bad Lady” Lady of Rage feat. Tupac and Kevin Vernando “No Fear” Fishbone “Keep it Locked” Pete Miser “Keep Ya Head Up” Tupac “369” J Dilla

Kaia started her career early, crafting her first EP Old Soul (2013) when she was just out of high school. Since then, she’s gone on to release two more albums, Sorrow Bound (2015) and Nine Pin (2016). Her most recent album weaves between hard-hitting songs that touch on social issues like the Black Lives Matter movement (“Rising Down,” “Paradise Fell”) and more personal narratives speaking to life and love in the digital age (“Saint Elizabeth”). Nine Pin won a Canadian Folk Music Award, a Stingray Rising Star Award and sent Kaia on an 18-month touring journey from Ireland to Iowa, including stops at The Kennedy Center, Hillside Festival and London's O2 Shepherd's Bush. For her third album, Grenades (October 2018, Folkways/acronym Records), she took a decidedly different direction, choosing to lean into a wider array of sounds and styles, in order to convey a wider array of emotions and topics, most notably her paternal ancestry.

A ''genuine artist ... who can render the intricate dazzle of it all and at the same time plumb its philosophical implications'' (Esquire), Richard Powers explores a remarkable range of subject matters in his novels. Among them are The Echo Maker, a story of the precarious brain, mass migrations, and car accidents; Orfeo, the narrative of a falsely accused amateur scientist/composer; and Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, in which a WWI-era photo sends two men on very different quests. His many honors include the National Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Lannan Literary Award, and two Pushcart prizes. Powers' new book evokes activism, resistance, and the beauty of the natural world in the tale of disparate people saved and summoned by trees. A writer of ''wide learning, audacious innovation and sardonic wit'' (Washington Post), prolific polymath William T. Vollmann is a novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and war correspondent. His 10 novels include the National Book Award-winning Europe Central, a portrait of Germany and the USSR at war. Two of his works of nonfiction, Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial, were National Book Critics Circle Award finalists. Vollmann's articles and fiction have appeared in Harpers, The New Yorker, Esquire, and too many other publications to name. With firsthand research, sardonic wit, and far-reaching scope, No Immediate Danger details the ongoing disaster of the Fukushima nuclear plant and the global consequences of climate change.  Watch the video here. (recorded 4/12/2018)

Selections from The Roots albums Illadelph Halflife, Things Fall Apart, Game Theory, Phrenolgy, Undun, Rising Down, and How I Got Over. Classic-ish!! Peace!

Last Stories and Other Stories (Viking Books) In this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic. NOTE: We're expecting a big crowd for this event.  As always, our events are free and open to the public, but we will be issuing numbered singing line tickets to keep the line organized (the number is your place in line).  To get a ticket to go through the signing line, you must purchase a copy of Last Stories and Other Stories here at Skylight Books.  Tickets will become available on the day the book is released -- July 10.  You can purchase the book and get a ticket in our store, over the phone (at 323-660-1175), or on our website (just leave a note in the "order comments" field that you'd like a ticket).  Members in our Friends with Benefits program get 20% off the event book and a ticket to the priority signing line, so sign up or mention your membership when you buy. A Bohemian farmer's dead wife returns to him, and their love endures, but at a gruesome price. A geisha prolongs her life by turning into a cherry tree. A journalist, haunted by the half-forgotten killing of a Bosnian couple, watches their story, and his own wartime tragedy, slip away from him. A dying American romances the ghost of his high school sweetheart while a homeless salaryman in Tokyo animates paper cutouts of ancient heroes. Are ghosts memories, fantasies, or monsters? Is there life in death? Vollmann has always operated in the shadowy borderland between categories, and these eerie tales, however far-flung their settings, all focus on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death. Vollmann's stories will transport readers to a fantastical world where love and lust make anything possible. Praise for Last Stories and Other Stories "Vollmann's fiction has always defied easy categorization. Here, he straddles, twists, and morphs action-adventure, horror, political thriller, fantasy, and literary fiction. What gives the book coherence is his singular style: elaborate and picaresque, with a rich vocabulary. . .Mainstays of horror and the supernatural figure prominently, and it's especially exciting to read these pop-fiction conventions treated with Vollmann's narrative richness."--Publishers Weekly "Creatively sourced, boldly imagined, and incandescently written supernatural stories. . . Throughout this ingeniously fabulist, erotic, musing, and satirical treasury, Vollmann gives monstrous and alluring form to the forces that haunt us, from desire and love to regret and loss, as he contemplates with ardor, sorrow, bemusement, and wonder the beauty and terror of life and death and the vast mystery of the hereafter."--ALA Booklist William T. Vollmann is the author of seven novels, three collections of stories, and a seven-volume critique of violence, Rising Up and Rising Down. He is also the author of Poor People, a worldwide examination of poverty through the eyes of the impoverished themselves; Riding Toward Everywhere, an examination of the train-hopping hobo lifestyle; and Imperial, a panoramic look at one of the poorest areas in America. He has won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and a Whiting Writers' Award. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, Spin and Granta. Vollmann lives in Sacramento, California.

Joel and Jon are probably the only two people in the Book Club who finished William Vollman's Rising Up and Rising Down, but that's OK; they will like it enough for all the rest of you. Join them for ruminations, reflections, and meditations on the moral implications of human violence.

01. The Hypnotic (feat. D'Angelo) 02. You Got Me (feat. Jill Scott) 03. Tracie Spencer - It's All About You (remix) 04. Why (What's Goin On?) 05. Millie Pulled A Pistol On Santa 06. Proceed (Live At The Supper Club) 07. Datskat 08. Silent Treatment (Street Mix) 09. Silent Treatment (Kelo's Mix) 10. Silent Treatment (Black Thought's 87 You & Yours Mix) 11. Rising Down (feat. Mos Def) 12. Clones (feat. Dice Raw & M.A.R.S.) 13. Distortion To Static (Black Thought Mix) 14. Distortion To Static (At Ease Microphone Check Mix) 15. Lazy Afternoon 16. Soulive & Black Thought - Clap! 17. Walking Large - Listen To This 18. Nonchalant - Take it There (remix) 19. The 'Notic 20. The Lesson, Part 1 21. Ital (The Universal Side) (feat. Q-Tip) 22. U.N.I.Verse At War feat Common 23. Step Into The Relm 24. ? vs. Rahzel 25. What Goes On, Part 7 26. Stay Cool 27. Proceed II (feat. Roy Ayers) 28. Still Out There 29. What They Do 29. Act Too (The Love Of My Life) (feat. Common) 30. No Alibi 31. I'm Out Deah 32. Complexity (feat. Jill Scott)

The Roots have released "Rising Down," the follow-up to 2006's "Game Theory." Are they still the most socially conscious hip-hop group on earth? Listen up.

Rising Up and Rising Down (McSweeney's; abridged, Harper Collins) William Vollmann's mammoth inquiry is a study of the history of violence, which fills seven large volumes...