What I Learned as a Teenage Hip Hop Critic for Pitchfork
At seventeen, I spread the gospel of underground rap to a wider audience. But BIPOC music journalists are no longer afforded opportunities like mine
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Rollie Pemberton is a writer, rapper, producer, poet, and activist who performs under the name Cadence Weapon. He won the 2021 Polaris Music Prize for his album Parallel World. His writing has been published in Pitchfork, the Guardian, Wired, and Hazlitt. He is a former poet laureate in his hometown of Edmonton and is now based in Toronto.
