William E. Ketchum III is a multimedia journalist dedicated to covering the intersection of music, culture, and society. Over the course of his nearly 20-year career, his work has appeared in Vulture, GQ, Complex, Billboard, Guardian, NPR, MTV, XXL, and Ebony. He has also provided commentary for NPR and the BBC, and he works directly with record companies and artists to tell their stories. Currently a freelancer, he was most recently deputy editor at VIBE.
The Wu-Tang Clan are concluding one helluva ride. The Clan have just begun Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber, their final tour as a collective. The 27-date trek is the largest run of headlining shows the group has ever had, and concludes in Philadelphia on July 18. The tour will feature all eight of the Clan’s original members, along with unofficial…
There are plenty of idioms about the importance of perseverance through hard times. But as 2Pac sat in a prison cell in fall 1995, he just needed an ally. He had titled his album from March of that year Me Against The World, and that was exactly how he felt. In 1994 alone, he pled guilty to a misdemeanor after being charged with…
