1. DRAKE Not only does he dominate upon release, he’s constantly stretching the form. His late winter mixtape was a revelation. Forget the Meek Mill beef, that’s just a sideshow, where there’s a hit there’s a writ, and when you’re on top others try to take you down. But Drake keeps lifting others up! He’s […]

Since so many say they learned new stuff about me in the L.A. “Times” article, I hereby present the RuPaul podcast, which was recorded a month ago, in a little cafe south of the border, no, in a house turned into a studio just off of Sunset Boulevard. It was early in the morning for […]

“Paul Simon: Words & Music” You’ve got to hook ’em with the very first line. Some things never change. Just like hip-hop is the sound of the streets and rock and roll is overbaked. That’s when Paul Simon turned away from rock to folk, when the former was repetitive and the latter was saying something, […]

Is like a band. You need a leader with a vision, and a group of players who come together in furtherance of the sound. Assuming you want to have a hit. Most bands never succeed. And neither do most startups. Yesterday I went to a WeWork space in Playa Vista. That’s right, there’s a tech […]