Reel Notes w/ CineMasai

If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (BUY IT THROUGH A WEB BROWSER OR THE PATREON ANDROID APP, NOT VIA THE PATREON iOS APP. YOU'LL GET CHARGED EXTRA MONEY AND IT WILL TAKE LONGER TO PROCESS.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more!My guest this week is California-via-Philly rapper, producer, and graphic designer, Dewey Bryan. We spoke about the Devo documentary on Netflix, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Good Boy, Point Break, several other 90s movies, his affinity for east coast and west coast rap, his career in indie rap, his illustrious graphic design career, especially his work with Anderson .Paak, and the creative process behind he and producer Earoh’s album Beach Burners. Come fuck with us.Beach Burners is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow Dewey on Instagram and Twitter (@deweysaunders) or TikTok (@officialdeweybryan), and be sure to check out beachburners.com for all things Beach Burners. My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and fuck the system.Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all platforms    Support the show

If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (BUY IT THROUGH A WEB BROWSER OR THE PATREON ANDROID APP, NOT VIA THE PATREON iOS APP. YOU'LL GET CHARGED EXTRA MONEY AND IT WILL TAKE LONGER TO PROCESS.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more!My guest this week is Portland, Oregon rapper and co-host of the Good Talk podcast, Milc. We spoke about Highest 2 Lowest, One Battle After Another, The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, the filmography of Will Smith, embracing rap and basketball from a young age, working as a rapper and podcaster, and the creative processes behind three of his projects: The Fish That Saved Portland, produced by Televangel, Affordable Luxuries, produced by Chuck Strangers under the duo name Bad Tofu, and Run for the Arts, produced by Spinitch. Come fuck with us.Run for the Arts is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Three Dollar Pistol's Bandcamp page. Follow Milc on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok (@milcmane).  My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and fuck the system.Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all platforms    Support the show

If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (BUY IT THROUGH A WEB BROWSER OR THE PATREON ANDROID APP, NOT VIA THE PATREON iOS APP. YOU'LL GET CHARGED EXTRA MONEY AND IT WILL TAKE LONGER TO PROCESS.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more!My guest this week is New Jersey-based playlist curator, Assistant Music Programmer for R&B and Lead Music Programmer for African & Caribbean music at Pandora, and co-creator and co-host of the Reasonable Dialogue podcast, Tatiana “Yan” Snead. We spoke about The Summer I Turned Pretty, the art of rewatching old movies, growing up in Jersey, her journey from aspiring singer to playlist curator to radio programmer, the music industry, and the creative process behind Reasonable Dialogue and her new solo podcast Raw Form. Come fuck with us.Reasonable Dialogue, featuring co-hosts DJ Miss Millan and Jazmine Kind, is available wherever you get your podcasts. Follow Reasonable Dialogue on Twitter (@RsnbleDialogue) and Instagram (@reasonabledialogue). Raw Form is available exclusively on Spotify.    My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and fuck the system.Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all platforms    Support the show

If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (BUY IT THROUGH A WEB BROWSER OR THE PATREON ANDROID APP, NOT VIA THE PATREON iOS APP. YOU'LL GET CHARGED EXTRA MONEY AND IT WILL TAKE LONGER TO PROCESS.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more!My guest this week is Virginia producer and former rapper Ohbliv. We spoke about Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, the video for Michael Jackson’s Thriller, being inspired by Wild Style and Krush Groove, his work with Fly Anakin, being cosigned by Madlib, his love for the SP-404 MKII, and the creative process behind the beats for ShrapKnel’s Armature. If you’re in Richmond, make sure to check out his debut solo collage exhibition, Oblivious Utopias, at the Southside Contemporary Art Gallery until this Friday, October 4. Come fuck with us.ShrapKnel's Armature is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from the Fused Arrow Bandcamp page. Check out Bliv's last solo project, SLACK, wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow Ohbliv on Instagram and Twitter: @ohblivRead Dash Lewis's profile on Ohbliv for Bandcamp, and check out Ohbliv's extensive catalog of music while you're at it.My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and fuck the system. Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all platforms    Support the show

If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (BUY IT THROUGH A WEB BROWSER OR THE PATREON ANDROID APP, NOT VIA THE PATREON iOS APP. YOU'LL GET CHARGED EXTRA MONEY AND IT WILL TAKE LONGER TO PROCESS.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more!My guests this week are Florida rapper Denzel Curry and British producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Bobby Krlic AKA The Haxan Cloak. We spoke about Nightcrawler, Collateral, their mutual appreciation for Takashi Miike, their respective paths through music, the power of being yourself, and the creative process behind Bobby’s score for the new horror film HIM and Denzel’s contribution to the soundtrack’s titular song. Come fuck with us. HIM (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow Denzel on Instagram (@denzelcurryph), Twitter (@denzelcurry), and TikTok (@denzelxcurry). Follow Bobby on Instagram: @thehaxancloakMy first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and fuck the system.  Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all platforms  Support the show

If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (BUY IT THROUGH A WEB BROWSER, NOT VIA THE PATREON iOS APP. YOU'LL GET CHARGED EXTRA MONEY AND IT WILL TAKE LONGER TO PROCESS.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more!My guests this week are Colorado rapper-producer Teller Bank$ and producers Killer Kane, q no rap name, and Philth Spector. We spoke about the Nichola Winding Refn movie Drive, Sinners, The Toxic Avenger, concept albums as short films, honing their crafts in Colorado, Philadelphia, and California, a brief history of Flip A Beat Club, and the extensive creative process behind their collaborative album Drug$$$. Come fuck with us.Drug$$$ is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Teller's Bandcamp page. Follow Teller on Instagram (@teller_banks) and Twitter (@Teller_Banks357). Follow Killer Kane on Instagram (@ourleaderkane) and Twitter (@killerkanebeats). Follow q no rap name on Instagram (@qnorapname) and Twitter (@qnorapname_). Follow Philth Spector on Instagram and Twitter (@philth_spector)My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and fuck the system.  Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all platforms   Support the show

If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more!My guest this week is Bronx-based rapper, singer, producer, co-host of Victory Light with The Kid Mero, and tattoo artist Rainey Ovalle. We spoke about the shadiness of the music industry and Spotify numbers, the Japanese crime thriller Battles Without Honor & Humanity, Tarzan, Sinners, listening to Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx for the first time on 9/11, evolving from slam poetry to rap music, his love for reggaeton and darkwave music, his feud with Alchemist, and the creative process behind his latest album Cigarettes With Dead Men and his latest single “Malona.” Come fuck with us. Cigarettes With Dead Men and "Malona" are available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Follow Rainey on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok: @RaineyOvalle. Listen to Victory Light on YouTube or wherever else you get your podcasts. My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti.  For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday!Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), Bluesky (@cinemasai.bsky.social), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green.    Support the show

If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more!My guest this week is New York-based rapper, producer, director, and visual artist SOO DO KOO. We spoke about The Simpsons, the buddy-cop movie Running Scared, Pink Floyd’s The Wall, This is Spinal Tap, our favorite bits of stop-motion animation, being exhaustively prolific as a beatmaker and rapper, working with August Fanon and andrew, cultivating community outside of New York City, and the creative process behind two his latest projects: Meals on Wheels and Fuzzy Dunlop, a collab with the rapper andrew. Come fuck with us.Meals on Wheels and Fuzzy Dunlop are both available exclusively on SOO DO KOO's Bandcamp. Go check out the archives and buy something! Follow SOO DO KOO on Instagram (@soo.do.koo) and Twitter (@SOODOKOO).  My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti.  For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday!Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), Bluesky (@cinemasai.bsky.social), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green.    Support the show

If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more!My guest this week is New Jersey-born rapper, producer, director, and humanitarian, GDP. We spoke about Clive Barker’s Nightbreed, the magic of independent movie theaters, Solaris, Highest 2 Lowest, Kids, coming up as a rapper and skater in New Jersey, navigating the blog era, looking back on his old music, reflecting on his decade-long break, co-directing a documentary about rapper Tame One, and the creative process behind he and Fatboi Sharif’s EP Endocrine, out now via Fused Arrow Records. Come fuck with us.Endocrine is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from GDP's Bandcamp. Follow GDP on Instagram and Twitter: @g6d6p6. Follow Fused Arrow Records on Instagram and Twitter: @fusedarrowrecsMy first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti.  For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday!Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), Bluesky (@cinemasai.bsky.social), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green.    Support the show

If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more!My guest this week is Toronto-based music journalist, critic, tastemaker, and filmmaker Elsie Ahachi. We spoke about Tyler Perry’s Straw, War of The Worlds, Weapons, Sinners, the work of Spike Lee, how she went from studying computer science to music content creation, the music journalism landscape, the difference between a journalist, influencer, and content creator, and the creative process behind her debut documentary, Toronto’s Best Kept Secret: Meet Dylan Sinclair, available to watch now on YouTube. Come fuck with us.Toronto’s Best Kept Secret: Meet Dylan Sinclair is out now on YouTube. Follow Elsie on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok: @elsienoteliseMy first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti.  For information about contacting your representatives to demand a ceasefire, finding protests, and other tools, check out CeasefireToday!Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), Bluesky (@cinemasai.bsky.social), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped into all things Dylan Green.    Support the show