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Matthew Ritchie

Reporter and Producer at Freelance

Diversity Content Fellow at MLB

reporting/producing @MLB dot com. music, sports, and culture writing.

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Articles

  • Lunchbox: L.B. Cooper

    6 days ago | pitchfork.com | Matthew Ritchie

    Think of the title of Lunchbox’s 2023 release, New Jazz, as the Harlem rapper-producer’s attempt to distinguish himself among a wave of drill and internet rap descended from the likes of Future and Chief Keef. No, Lunchbox isn’t splicing Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis horn samples between the whirring synths (though in an 2023 interview, he claimed some of the beats had a “saxophone” presence).

  • Let’s watch ‘The Mack’ and fix baseball

    1 month ago | ncviews.substack.com | Matthew Ritchie

    “How in the hell can you drop a ball like that?”I’m not in the business of telling people how to do their jobs, I promise (that just sounds like adding more jobs on top of my own). But I do believe that we can put away the studies and surveys and research departments in lieu of a simple, tangible remedy for one of the biggest problems facing the sport of baseball.

  • Curren$y / Harry Fraud: Never Catch Us

    1 month ago | pitchfork.com | Matthew Ritchie

    It doesn’t take much convincing to give yourself up to the groove of a Curren$y track, letting his Nawlins drawl wash over you as the beat builds into the soundtrack to a getaway via private jet or Mercedes SL 550. There’s care and composure in the way that Curren$y constructs his songs, as if he’s armed with the knowledge that there’s no reason to rush.

  • Top$ide / Shaudy Kash: On the Yeah Side Deluxe

    2 months ago | pitchfork.com | Matthew Ritchie

    Top$ide and Shaudy Kash have fostered the type of chemistry that you usually only see between detective pairings on Law & Order (à la Lennie Briscoe and Rey Curtis), where the beats of their relationship have played out on loop without a hitch. You’re able to set your watch to the way the Detroit pairing’s rhythms interact.

  • Black Milk / Fat Ray: Food From the Gods

    2 months ago | pitchfork.com | Matthew Ritchie

    Few figures in Detroit’s rap landscape have remained as consistent throughout the ebbs and flows of the genre’s evolution as Black Milk and Fat Ray, epitomizing the brand of resiliency endemic to that lower right quadrant of The Mitten.

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matthew ritchie @mkrwrt
17 Apr 25

please help me find my batting cages

Los Angeles Review of Books
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"As the summer inched toward its merciful end and the Las Vegas heat mercifully began to relent, I noticed that all of the batting cages in the city had disappeared." @mkrwrt reviews "Eephus." https://t.co/nQ2CNhkeka

matthew ritchie
matthew ritchie @mkrwrt
15 Apr 25

RT @curlyfro: i’m so glad we’re at this point. i banged this drum for a long time. the way we talk about and celebrate jackie robinson has…

matthew ritchie
matthew ritchie @mkrwrt
15 Apr 25

RT @perlucidum: typical matt ritchie grand slam review https://t.co/0RZqQCNwap