All articles written by Oliver Wang (c) 2002
 
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  The Signals Stay With You (Column on My Favorite Musical Moment of 2002)
Appears In: SF Bay Guardian (December 4, 2002)

Common: Electric Circus
(Album Review)
Appears In: SF Bay Guardian (December 18, 2002)

Hip-Hop Boo Hoo: Pity Poor Jay-Z
(Column on Jay-Z's Blueprint 2)
Appears In: LA Weekly (December 20, 2002)

 
 
  2002 In Review
(Column on the Year In Hip-Hop)
Appears in: Popmatters.Com (December 26, 2002)

Snoop Dogg: Paid Tha Cost To be Tha Boss
(Album Review)
Appears In: The Source (December 2002)

 
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  Love and Hip-Hop
(Column on Brown Sugar)
Appears In: Popmatters.Com (November 2002)


V/A: California Soul
(Album Review)
Appears In: SF Bay Guardian (11/20/02)


 

 
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  Liberated Brother: Weldon Irvine
(Cover Story on the Life and Music of Weldon Irvine)
Appears In: Wax Poetics #3 (Fall 2002)

Freedom Calls
(Column on Jurassic 5's Power In Numbers)
Appears In: LA Weekly (October 18,2002)

The Queen of Hearts (Column on Aretha Franklin's The Queen In Waiting Anthology)
Appears In: Minneapolis Citypages (October 9, 2002)


Mass Appeal
(Cover Story on Jurassic 5)
Appears In: URB Magazine (October 2002)


 
 
  Jurassic 5: Power In Numbers
(Album review)
Appears In: Source Magazine (October 2002)


Smokin' Grooves
(Tour review)
Appears In: XXL Magazine (October 2002)


 
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  Pushing Weight
(Column on the Clipse's Lord Willin')
Appears In: Popmatters.Com




 
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  Hooked on Sonics
(Feature on the Beat Junkies' 10th Anniversary)
Appears In: LA Weekly (August 16, 2002)

Hip-Hop Cinema
(Column on the documentaries Scratch and Freestyle)
Appears In: Popmatters.Com

 
 
 
 
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  The Flamin' Groovies
(Preview of the Smokin' Grooves Tour)
Appears in: Minneapolis City Pages (July 24, 2002)


Rebel Without a Cause
(Extended essay on Eminem)
Appears In: Popmatters.Com (July 2002)


Urban Couture
(Column on Staple Design's Jeff Ng)
Appears In: AsianAvenue.Com (July 2002)


?uestlove: Babies Making Babies
(Album review)
Appears In: Source Magazine (August 2002)


DJ Jazzy Jeff: The Magnificent
(Album review)
Appears In: Vibe Magazine (August 2002)




 
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  This is Called The Show
(Column on The Eminem Show)
Appears In: LA Weekly

Shadow Play
(Interview with DJ Shadow)
Appears In: Popmatters.Com

One for the Griot
(Column on Blackalicious and J-Live)
Appears In: LA Weekly

Love and Hate
(Interview with "Cool" Chris Veltri of S.F.'s Groove Merchant)
Appears In: Wax Poetic (Summer 2002)


 
 
  Music Mobility
(Photo Essay on Portable Record Players)
Appears In: Wax Poetic (Summer 2002)


DJ Babu: Duck Season
(Album review)
Appears In: Source Magazine (July 2002)


Styles Upon Styles
(Feature on Romanowski)
Appears In: URB Magazine (July 2002)


 
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  Jin and Juice
(Interview wth Jin)
Appears In: AsianAvenue.Com



 
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  Hip-Hop Will Eat Itself
(Music column)
Appears In: Popmatters.Com (2/02)

Blackalicious: On Target
(Column on Blackalicious' Blazing Arrow)
Appears in: SF Bay Guardian


Edan: Primitive Plus
(Album review)
Appears On: SF Bay Guardian


Short But Sweet
(Column on film shorts)
Appears on: AsianAvenue.Com


 
 
  N.E.R.D.ed Out
(Column on the Neptunes)
Appears In: SJ Metro


Private Parts
(Cover story on DJ Shadow)
Appears In: URB Magazine (April 2002)


Scratch: The Embodiment of Instrumentation
(Album reivew)
Appears In: Source Magazine (May 2002)


 
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  Minor Problems
(Interview wth Blackalicious)
Appears In: The Source (April 2002)

Projecting Emotion
(Interview with Romeo Candido, director of Lolo's Child)
Appears In: AsianAvenue.Com

Robot Sumo Wrestling
(Radio feature)
Appears on: PacificTime, KQED, 88.5 FM

Miller Time
(Cover story on Master P and Lil Romeo)
Appears In: The Source (April 2002)

Tomorrow Comes Today
(Story on Better Luck Tomorrow)
Appears in: SF Bay Guardian


J-Live: All of the Above
(Album review)
Appears In: Source Magazine (May 2002)


 
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  Funk Turns a Corner
(Music column)
Appears In: Popmatters.Com

Better Luck Tomorrow
(Radio feature)
Appears On: Pacific Time, KQED, 88.5 FM


 
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  Buzzed In: No More Waiting For Tomorrow
(Interivew with Justin Lin, director of Better Luck Tomorrow)
Appears In: AsianAvenue.Com

MTV Picks Up Tomorrow
(Follow-Up Interview with Justin Lin)
Appears In: AsianAvenue.Com

Jay Z: Unplugged
(Album review)
Appears In: SF Bay Guardian

Backspin: Hip-Hop in 2001
(Music column)
Appears In: Popmatters.com

Wu Tang Clan: Iron Flag
(Album Review)
Appears In: San Jose Metro

 

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