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Hua Hsu

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Articles: 213

Hua Hsu edits the hip-hop section of URB Magazine and writes about music, culture and politics for Slate, the Village Voice, The Wire and various other magazines and weeklies. Hsu hails from California's Bay Area but he currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is seeking a PhD in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University.

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A Beginner’s Guide to D…

“I knew damn near everybody,” the late trumpeter and bandlead… more »

Six Degrees of Rihanna’…

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »

Six Degrees of A$AP Rocky…

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »

Six Degrees of Kendrick Lamar…

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »

Interview: Kendrick Lamar

“The world looks at this album as very personal,” a tired-sou… more »

Phantoms of Pop: Shintaro Sak…

Musicians aren’t always the best interlocutors of their own work, b… more »

Masta Ace, MA_DOOM: Son of Yv…

Of the many things a time-traveling, 1988 Juice Crew fan wouldn’t u… more »

Onra, Long Distance

The French producer Onra first came to prominence with Chinoiseries, an a… more »

Gary War, Jared’s Lot…

It should surprise no one that Gary War was once part of Ariel Pink… more »

Blackalicious, Melodica…

The Bay Area’s DIY Solesides collective aspired to make a movement … more »

Icon: Damon Albarn and Blur

There is a clip of Damon Albarn being interviewed in August of 1995, on t… more »

Blur, The Great Escape (Speci…

By 1995, Blur had become bona fide stars — the kind who would be pr… more »

Six Degrees of Whitney Housto…

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »

Whitney Houston, Whitney…

It didn’t have to happen like this. As the story goes, Clive Davis … more »

Lords of the Underground: A G…

“Underground” is one of those tantalizingly vague terms that… more »

Six Degrees of Quakers’…

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »

Quakers, Quakers

A hip-hop record for a different time, Quakers is a collaboration between… more »

Six Degrees of MC Lyte’…

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »

Hip-Hop’s Future Shock

Thumb-tacked to the wall of my room in my parents’ house is a list … more »

Raekwon, Only Built 4 Cuban L…

Arguably the greatest of all Wu solo efforts, there is something thorough… more »

Active Child Talks Classic Hi…

With his strident falsetto and taste for grandiose, imposing production, … more »

Gorillaz, Gorillaz

The premise of the "virtual band" Gorillaz came to Albarn and his then-ro… more »

Immortal Technique, Revolutio…

Sometimes staying underground is a necessity, lest the Secret Service sho… more »

Paul Wall & Chamillionai…

All hip-hop is regional: This was the lesson of the early 2000s, as stars… more »

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Kicking at the Boundaries of Metal

By Jon Wiederhorn, eMusic Contributor

As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »

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