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 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

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 singer, songwriter, producer, composer, rapper, and multidisciplinary artist, Cleo Reed. We spoke about local independent movie theaters, Sinners, the French-Canadian drama Incendies, the documentaries Ascension and Time, making their debut album Root Cause, evolving into a multidisciplinary artist, traditions of Black American folk, country, blues, and R&B, and the creative process behind their latest album Cuntry. Come fuck with us.Cuntry is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Cleo's Bandcamp page. Follow Cleo on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok: @cleoforshortRead my Vinyl Me Please Rising profile of Cleo at the link. 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 guests this week are Dan-O and Keith Rollins, the co-hosts of Freemusicempire’s State of The Game podcast. We spoke about the Billy Joel documentary, Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Megalopolis, Terminator, Ikaru, how Dan-O built Freemusicempire into a blog, meeting Keith and developing State of The Game, their growth, being a part of the indie rap podcast community, their creative process, and their upcoming New York showcase, happening at Young Ethel’s in Brooklyn on Friday, August 15. Come fuck with us.Meet Freemusicempire live in New York at their debut showcase, featuring Nappy Nina, SKECH185, August Fanon, shemar, & more. Tickets are $10 and are available at the door of Young Ethel's in Brooklyn the day-of starting at 8:30PM. Listen to State of The Game wherever you get your podcasts, and join the Freemusicempire Patreon for access to exclusive articles and episodes about all things music. 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

Join me and special guest Navy Blue on Saturday, August 30 at Loudmouth in Brooklyn, for the ninth iteration of Reel Talk, a Reel Notes movie night. We'll be screening the 1999 animated sci-fi drama The Iron Giant and talking about his latest album, Memoirs in Armour. Tickets and more info here.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!This week’s episode is a bit different than usual: it’s a playback of my conversation with California visual artist Brian Kwon held during the opening week of Genius Loci, his first-ever art exhibit. We spoke about his upbringing, musical tastes, entrance to the world of indie rap, the process of drawing rap shows in real-time, and a handful of the pieces that lined the walls that night, including work featuring billy woods, ShrapKnel, Conductor Williams, and more. Brian and I will be recording a more traditional episode of Reel Notes sometime down the line, but for now, come fuck with us.  Follow Brian on Instagram (@beekay.art), subscribe to his Substack, and check out his Linktree to stay tapped in with all things Brian. 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