In this series, Lagniappe offers a distinctive get the job done every week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Artwork, with commentary from a curator. When a modest watering can was introduced by multinational home goods retail store IKEA in 2003, most likely no a single imagined […]
Vessel
DMX’s Tunes Was a Profound Vessel for His Discomfort
From the launch of his debut Def Jam one, “Get at Me Puppy,” in 1998, DMX was an instant titanic presence in hip-hop. Just as the style was transferring toward polished sheen, he favored iron and concrete — rapping with a muscular throatiness that conveyed an excitable form of mayhem. […]