A cursory glance tells me this is remedial to those in the know but the legendary Brooklyn freestyle that everyone’s seen a million times was the extent of my archival Biggie knowledge so I got a lot out of this. Cannot be overstated just how magnetic and mythical of a presence he was. Doesn’t even seem real sometimes. Really lovely anecdote here from producer Easy Mo Bee in which he saw the grim, dead end nature of hustling taking its…

• Tarantino, like PTA with Magnolia, made a young man’s old man film, an elegy to vinyl in the jewel case era. (Fitting that Max compromises with a cassette.) It’s somewhat self-fulfilling that a director making something about the difficulty of aging, of being a walking relic, would immediately retreat into the past — or pastiche — for the rest of his career. Reappraisal has hardened into consensus (on LB, anyway) but the trajectory his career would’ve taken had this…