April 2015 Book Reviews

Book reviews for Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.: A Memoir, Grumpy Cat: A Grumpy Book, The Grumpy Guide to Life: Observations by Grumpy Cat, Helen Keller Really Lived, I Found My Friends: The Oral History Of Nirvana, The Modern Savage: Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals, and Robin Robertson’s Vegan Without Borders: Easy Everyday Meals from Around the World.

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Nothing Is Too Big: An Interview With Grieves

Rhymesayers rhyme-slinger Grieves stops by the 801 on Feb. 20 at The Complex.

Grieves is pale, skinny and unapologetic. He is aware that he draws comparisons to Macklemore. He pays no attention to what assumptions Pitchfork makes about the originality of his rap or how many stars they slap on his album. This could come across as cockiness, but the truth is that his rhymes are rooted in soil too deep to be bothered by shallow judgments—hip-hop is as much about letting go as it is pushing forward

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