Email Author Todd Levin

2002 Stories by Todd Levin

• Missy Elliott

  published December 5, 2002

  Trailblazing partners Missy Elliott and Timbaland function as musical time travelers, teleporting in every few years to show hip-hop what its... More >>

• Using the Force

  published September 19, 2002

  Afu-Ra is many things: father of two, devoted husband, hip-hop MC, martial arts student, devoted disciple of Haile Selassie. But right now he is a... More >>

• N*E*R*D

  published April 4, 2002

  "Slave" may be a first: a Britney Spears song that doesn't cause all listeners over 14 (years or IQ -- you pick) to wonder reflexively if it might... More >>

• The X-ecutioners

  published March 28, 2002

  If university music departments offered a survey course on the history of hip-hop, lazier students would be advised to use the X-ecutioners' new... More >>

• Cornelius

  published January 31, 2002

  Is our little Cornelius all growed up now? Keigo Oyamada's newest album, Point, manages to preserve the wide-eyed sense of wonder that made... More >>