Dash Lewis

1 week ago | daily.bandcamp.com | Dash Lewis

LISTS The Best of Rahiem Supreme (So Far) By Dash Lewis · June 17, 2025 Wandering around Washington, D.C.’s Union Market is a surreal experience. It’s a collision of the old and new, where wholesalers hawking cheap sunglasses and butchers selling halal meats sit next to fourth-wave coffee shops, high-end taquerias that promise “authentic” experiences, and a Warby Parker storefront softly jamming generic tech-house.

2 weeks ago | styleweekly.com | Dash Lewis

It’s 10 p.m. in London, but Fly Anakin is wide awake, chipper even. The Richmond-raised rapper and Mutant Academy founding member is in the U.K. to check in with his label, Lex Records, and play a few shows to promote his new album, “(The) Forever Dream.” So far, he’s having a blast. “We out here smoking weed, drinking beers,” he says with an explosive laugh. “Pubbed out.”It’s only been a few weeks since the album dropped, but the promotional cycle is in full swing.

3 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Dash Lewis

Kiss the Ring was a triumphant moment for Rome Streetz, the culmination of a long-simmering underground career filled with razor-edged street raps and furrowed-brow beats. It was Rome’s Griselda debut, extending a hot streak for the prestige label that kicked into high gear with Westside Gunn’s 2020 magnum opus, Pray for Paris. Gunn tapped the perfect team of gritty-but-trippy producers for Rome’s nasal, piston-firing delivery, and Rome seemed to dip his pen in acid.

3 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Dash Lewis

For Aesop Rock, the line between perceptive and paranoid has always been blurry. Fleeting observations can turn his thoughts into a red-string conspiracy board, mapping out complex connections in search of hidden spheres of meaning. On Tobacco’s “Dirt,” for instance, he turns a glance at a yard full of topiary into a psychedelic examination of the human desire to separate from nature by taming it.

4 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Dash Lewis

Someone dear to me who lives across the country once described our friendship as “Monday-Tuesday.” It’s a simple and beautiful concept: It’s Monday when we see each other, and the next time, no matter how much time has passed, it’s Tuesday. It’s been 16 years since Clipse, the Virginia Beach duo of brothers Pusha T and No Malice, gave us something to step to, and “Ace Trumpets” sounds like no time has passed at all.