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  No Trivia's Friday Five: An Artisanal Tribute to DJ Screw

  April 19, 2013 – 1. Simon Reinhardt's At the DJ Screw Museum: Based on the Donald Barthelme short story "At the Tolstoy Museum," cartoonist Simon Reinhardt (who also runs the rap Tumblr, BASIC FACTS U SHOULD ALREADY KNOW) presents a screenprinted hip-hop dork fantasy that imagines an epic Screw museum with glass floors and giant war propaganda-sized images of the DJ and his pals. …
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  Big K.R.I.T. Drops Near-Eponymous Mixtape 'King Remembered in Time'

  April 10, 2013 – After a prolonged streak of prolificacy, classic Southern rap revivalist Big K.R.I.T. was quiet for much of 2012 after the release of his debut album Live From the Underground (SPIN's No. 11 hip-hop album of last year). But he added to his long discography of mixtapes today with the new King Remembered in Time, a title that spells out the acronym in his name. It is entirely self-produced with the exception of one song (the B.J. …
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  Big K.R.I.T. Reinterprets James Blake's Dreams for 'R.E.M.' Video

  March 12, 2013 – As unlikely a trio of names as they are, Big K.R.I.T., James Blake, and R.E.M. have pathos in common. And also, something about sleep. The stalwart Mississippi MC samples "The Wilhelm Scream" from 2011's fairly jaw-dropping James Blake — specifically the line, "I don't know about my dreams." (Bonus props: K.R.I.T. …
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  Joey Bada$$, Big K.R.I.T., and Smoke DZA Resurrect Boom-Bap With 'Underground Airplay'

  February 7, 2013 – Brooklyn youngster Joey Bada$$ may have one of the most terrible names in rap, and there was that unfortunate bout of beef between him and Lil B, but his on-mike might is an undeniable thing. That's why it should come as no surprise that a proven whip-smart ripper like Big K.R.I.T. …
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  How Free Culture Saved Hip-Hop in 2012

  January 4, 2013 – Back in June, when David Lowery, the guy from Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker, took on the so-called "Free Culture movement"— mostly in response to a 21-year-old intern at NPR admitting that she, like most 21-year-olds, got most of her music for free — I kept thinking, "Where does rap music fit into all of this?" It's no surprise that an aging-out rocker would not consider hip-hop in his missive, but Lowery also teaches class …
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  Big K.R.I.T. Becomes Little K.R.I.T. in 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' Video

  December 21, 2012 – Big K.R.I.T.'s Live From the Underground is our 11th Best Hip-Hop Album of 2012 with good reason. …
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  Rap Release of the Week: Big Sant's 'MFxOG'

  October 18, 2012 – <p>Big Sant is like the bizarro-world version of Big K.R.I.T. He's stocky instead of lean, gifted with a gruff guttural shout rather than a sing-song rapping voice, and more than willing to indulge himself and not feel all twisted up about it the next day. Sant can be found Incredible Hulk-ing his way through a few of K.R.I.T.'s most immediate tracks: "Return of 4Eva" from <i>K.R.I.T. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Gwyneth Paltrow <3s Chief Keef

  August 10, 2012 – Have you checked out Gwyneth Paltrow's "Summer Jams" playlist over at Jay-Z's Life + Times website? It's a slideshow with YouTube embeds of her choices and brief, naively moronic comments from the famous actress about each song. Or, maybe an intern added the comments, it's hard to tell. …
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  No Trivia's Top 50 (Mostly Rap) Songs of the Year So Far

  July 5, 2012 – Ubiquitous major-label last great hope 2 Chainz makes four appearances on this list. None of those appearances are on any of his own songs, though he is a nice addition to each and everyone of them, particularly "Beez In The Trap," where he mentions Nicki Minaj's "doo-hickey." But this is just the story of major-label rap music this year: A whole lot of nothing you didn't ask for, to get to that something you actually want to hear. …
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  Big Boi Hosts Southern Reunion With UGK and Big K.R.I.T. on 'Gossip'

  June 28, 2012 – "No introductions needed," Big Boi begins on the latest track to surface from the OutKast-half-not-just-doing-commercials-and-Hendrix-biopics' upcoming Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors (currently set for November 13 on Def Jam), but it's hard to get past the impressive artist lineup on no-nonsense posse cut "Gossip." Particularly considering the track, which premiered on Atlanta radio DJ Greg Street's show last night, contains verses f …
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