1. Culture

    Sunday Notes: Community Policing, High School admission rates in NYC

    A Brownsville two-block stretch tried running its own emergency response for five days — and only 7 Black students were admitted to Stuyvesant High School out of 762 this year.

    ·2 min read
  2. Saturday Notes: Gianni Lee, Picasso at the Brooklyn Museum
    Culture

    Saturday Notes: Gianni Lee, Picasso at the Brooklyn Museum

    Gianni Lee and Dawn Richard's 'Walk In (Club Mix)' blends Club, Afro drums, and house — meanwhile critics panned Hannah Gadsby's Picasso-centered show at the Brooklyn Museum.

    ·2 min read
  3. Culture

    Friday Notes: Burna Boy, Release Day

    Burna Boy's new single samples Brandy's 1998 hit 'Sitting on Top of the World' featuring Mase — a classic flip in his signature style, alongside Meta's new return-to-office mandate.

    ·2 min read
  4. Release Day: Burna Boy, Camidoh, Bad Boy Timz, Metro Boomin, Toosii
    Music

    Release Day: Burna Boy, Camidoh, Bad Boy Timz, Metro Boomin, Toosii

    Metro Boomin's Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse soundtrack landed the same day as Toosii's Naujour and Burna Boy's Brandy-sampling new track — one of the year's biggest music Fridays.

    ·1 min read
  5. Burna Boy “Sitting on top of the world”
    Music

    Burna Boy “Sitting on top of the world”

    Back with another vintage soul sample, Burna Boy flips Brandy's 1998 'Sitting on Top of the World' featuring Mase into a new Afrobeats banger.

    ·1 min read
  6. Culture

    Thursday Notes

    The Miami Heat's 103-84 blowout in Game 7 became TNT's most-watched Eastern Conference Finals game ever, with 11.9M viewers tuning in. Bob Myers also stepped down from the Warriors.

    ·2 min read
  7. Wednesday Notes: Yeezy Sneakers are back, NBA Finals Preview, Baby Keem x Kendrick Lamar
    Culture

    Wednesday Notes: Yeezy Sneakers are back, NBA Finals Preview, Baby Keem x Kendrick Lamar

    Adidas put over $1 billion in Yeezy inventory back on sale to move past the Kanye West fallout — on the same day J. Cole was credited with helping the Heat land Caleb Martin.

    ·4 min read
  8. NIGO x KENZO: KENZO-DOME Leather Trainers
    Fashion

    NIGO x KENZO: KENZO-DOME Leather Trainers

    Three years after joining KENZO as artistic director, NIGO finally drops his first sneaker: the KENZO-DOME, a suede leather trainer rooted in 90s skate culture and Paris street history.

    ·2 min read
  9. Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar - The Hillbillies
    Music

    Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar - The Hillbillies

    Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar's joint track 'The Hillbillies' arrived via pgLang on the same day Tyler the Creator hinted at Camp Flog Gnaw 2023 — a big day for hip-hop.
  10. Tuesday Notes: Stormzy on African music, AI poses a threat to humanity, NBA Finals matchup set
    Culture

    Tuesday Notes: Stormzy on African music, AI poses a threat to humanity, NBA Finals matchup set

    OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind leaders signed a statement calling AI an extinction-level risk — the same day Stormzy told Dazed that the greatest music on Earth is coming out of Africa.

    ·4 min read
  11. Sports Roundup: NBA Finals matchup set - Nuggets vs. Heat, Premier League Updates, NBA Ref burner accounts
    Sports

    Sports Roundup: NBA Finals matchup set - Nuggets vs. Heat, Premier League Updates, NBA Ref burner accounts

    Denver and Miami are set for the NBA Finals, Everton squeezed past relegation on the last day of the Premier League season, and referee Eric Lewis was under investigation for an alleged Twitter burner account.

    ·3 min read
  12. Monday Notes: LVMH, Maternity and Black Mothers
    Culture

    Monday Notes: LVMH, Maternity and Black Mothers

    New research shows most pregnancy-related deaths happen in the year after birth, not during — the same week NYC banned weight and height discrimination and LVMH's Beverly Hills hotel plans were defeated.

    ·2 min read