Bob Marley: Portrait of the Legend

Created by a group of writers and record diggers, this is the cult music mag featuring ‘trailblazers, cultures and stories that shape the sounds of yesterday, today, and beyond’, following its reader-supported relaunch in 2021, Wax Poeticsis back. Exploring hip-hop, funk, techno, tropicalia, jazz, and beyond, Wax Poetics covers everyone from ‘the greats, to the off-beat mavericks, and the scenes […]

Spike Jonze and Beastie Boys met for the first time in Los Angeles in 1991, when Jonze went out to photograph the band for the cover of Dirt magazine. A connection formed between the three MCs and the young photographer, which has lasted throughout their careers. Almost thirty years later–published to coincide with the release […]

In 2008, with help from Jay-Z and Puff, Obama got the hip-hop vote, and became the first African American to be elected president. For a brief moment the “Audacity of Hope” seemed attainable. Yet only months ago the Ferguson riots brought an abrupt end to that hope, making emerging hip-hop artists, such as J Cole […]