On Kanye West’s new song, “So Appalled,” Jay-Z raps, “I’m so appalled, I might buy the mall, just to show […] how much more I have in store.” As Jay’s protégé’s album dropped this week (and leaked much earlier on the web), Jay himself ...

The name of Jay-Z’s first book is “Decoded,” a curious title given that among the work of celebrated rappers his lyrics might need perhaps the least decoding. Unlike the Wu-Tang Clan, for instance, whose arcane allusions, slang neologisms and ...

To call someone a conspiracy theorist is, in truth, to say something insultingly vague, because as we all know conspiracy theorists come in degrees. On the one hand are the elite squad of paranoids who keep 10 years’ worth of kidney beans in their ...