YOUNG POSSE Made “XXL” a Love Letter to Hip-Hop, and Black Fans Asked Who Was Invited to Read It

Image: local Media Library copy of the promotional or editorial image cited in Sources and Receipts below. YOUNG POSSE built “XXL” from boom-bap drums, ski masks, grills, oversized streetwear, an American rap magazine reference, and a Korean sample lineage. The song was good enough to make people listen. The styling was heavy enough to restart […]

BTS Take Two React

RaeRae Reacts · BTS · ARMY anniversary “Take Two” BTS looked at ten years with ARMY, called it the first take, and left the porch light on before a separation nobody could pretend was small. ArtistBTS ReleaseJune 9, 2023 Occasion10th anniversary · FESTA SoundAcoustic pop ForARMY Live clipAll seven members Member writersRM · SUGA · […]

Jin The Astronaut React

Jin’s “The Astronaut” turns a pre-enlistment goodbye into a warm pop-rock promise about distance, ARMY, Coldplay, hidden details and choosing home.

BTS Yet to Come React

RAERAE REACTS YET TO COME BTS parked the furniture from their old music videos in a desert, looked directly at their own legend, and said the best part was still somewhere ahead. “Yet to Come” is a retrospective that refuses to behave like a retirement speech. The song revisits the hunger, doubt, and promises that […]

BTS Dynamite React

RAERAE REACTS DYNAMITE BTS released a fully English disco-pop song in the middle of a pandemic, dressed it like a sugar rush at a retro record store, and accidentally kicked open another locked door in American pop. I know “Dynamite” is the obvious BTS song. Sometimes the obvious answer is obvious because it worked. Artist: […]