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July 29, 2020July 29, 2020

HIP-HOP AND COMICS [Comic-Con@Home]: Cultures Combining!

The year was 2005, I found myself living in San Diego, and its July. I kept hearing about Comic-Con, but had given up the idea of ever being able to attend, and -- not having had many people like myself in my life -- someone as deeply comfortable at the record store looking for the …

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February 20, 2020February 20, 2020

CZARFACE [Album Retrospective]: The Gods of #GeekSwag!

#GeekSwag is a phrase I coined a few years ago to describe hip-hop music that either: 1.) appeals to fans of popular geek culture -- superheroes, comic books, fantasy, horror & sci-fi topics, etc, and/or 2.) contains a deep focus and reverence on such subjects. And, right now, no group hits both of those strands …

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April 11, 2017April 11, 2017

WONDERCON 2017 / CZARFACE [#GeekSwag Reviews]: Hip-Hop and Comics – First Weapon Drawn.

Hip-Hop and Comics are arguably two of the most historically popular and influential forms of entertainment media, so it's only natural that they would have a confluence of fans and a panel at WonderCon 2017 to bring them together. As a pair of #GeekSwaggers who are quite obviously huge fans of both mediums, both "Pasto" …

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November 25, 2016January 7, 2017

CZARFACE / A TRIBE CALLED QUEST / LA COKA NOSTRA / TONE SPLIFF / JOE BUDDEN [#GeekSwag Reviews]: A Fistful of Peril.

For anyone who's been under a rock and managed to miss Every Hero Needs a Villain, which was probably 2015's best #GeekSwag Album, A Fistful of Peril is similarly like breaking loose from gravity, falling through the atmosphere and traveling through a portal in space to another dimension; one full of comic book heros and …

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April 18, 2014April 26, 2014

#NerdSwag [Reviews] ARMY OF THE PHARAOHS / PHAROAHE MONCH

Why hello Pharoahs. Welcome to another downright dirty edition of #NerdSwag. Ironic you see, today we have a legendary rhymesayer and an on-the-way to legendary supergroup doing their finest Egyptian, hip-hop magician thing. But before we get on with the reviews, I've got to send a huge shout-out to a threesome of Queens legends: Prodigy …

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