Mosi Reeves

Mosi Reeves

KQED Contributor

Mosi Reeves is a journalist and cultural critic based in Oakland, California. In addition to KQED, his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The Wire, Pitchfork, Billboard, and Grammy.com.

By Mosi Reeves

Unsigned and Hella Broke: The East Bay’s Dirt-Hustling 1990s Hip-Hop Subculture

Remembering Anticon and Hip-Hop’s Reckoning With Weirdness

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13 of the Bay Area's Best Turntablism Albums

How Bay Area Hip-Hop Found Its Sound in the 1980s

In the ’90s, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy Defied Homophobia and Changed Hip-Hop

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Hip-Hop Producer The Architect Builds a New Golden Era

How Shing02 and Nujabes Linked West Coast and Japanese Hip-Hop

Quelle Chris, a Leading Voice of Bandcamp's Rap Underground, Headlines Oakhella

The 10 Best Bay Area Albums of 2018: Prezi, 'Do Better'

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