New York Times culture reporter and Popcast host. please buy my book, "RAP CAPITAL: An Atlanta Story," out now in beautiful paperback ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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"RAP CAPITAL: AN ATLANTA STORY" MATTE BLACK LUXURY PAPERBACK DELUXE EDITION OUT NOW !!!
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Popcast interviewers confirm that even a-list celebrities aren't allowed to approve questions or pictures in their show, and they have even cancelled interviews when they were asked to not ask some questions.
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🟡 @joncaramanica and @joecoscarelli of The New York Times’ Popcast show join Mixed Signals to talk to @maxwelltani and @semaforben about how a two-decade-old music podcast became one of the most coveted interview slots in music — landing Taylor Swift, A$AP Rocky, Olivia Rodrigo, and Bad Bunny — by offering something most celebrity press won't: no question approval, no topic restrictions, and critics who've actually been covering these artists for years.
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I spoke to “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson before & after the final season and found him to be super game in engaging with the (many, passionate) critiques of the show…
the 2 topics hardest for me to pin him down on: Labrinth & Rue’s/the show’s latent Jewishness 🤷♂️ what I got:
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Euphoria is officially over, Sam Levinson and HBO say on Popcast
nytimes.com/2026/06/01/arts/…
youtu.be/-xxvltxPFpU
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young thug’s digits in the euphoria finale. nice
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Olivia Rodrigo doing the interviewers “sex and the city charts” is so funny 😭😭
help I wanna know which SATC character I am via Olivia Rodrigo
(I think I am a charlotte miranda )
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We are thrilled to announce Brooke Minters and Lisa Tobin will lead our new Shows department. nytco.com/press/new-leaders-…
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May 17
come chat about the Drake albums with us LIVE…now!
youtube.com/live/H3-Ep3rF3Pg…
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After 11 years, thousands of articles, 11 Taylor Swift album releases, one of the biggest trials in music history and more traumatizing deaths than one pop music editor could fathom, I have decided to leave The New York Times.
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Future
Justin Vernon
Billie Joe Armstrong
Miranda Lambert
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NBA YoungBoy
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Kathleen Hanna
Lil Wayne
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Tracy Chapman David Byrne (Scot?), I get it
(Kanye and Beyoncé are [executive] producers to me but I’d hear the argument that this is a kind of postmodern songwriting, like rap’s ‘anti’-writers)
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NYT finally published the whole Taylor interview on youtube youtu.be/5B8-TJ8vsKY?is=jeu7…
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On Popcast, @joecoscarelli discusses his Taylor Swift interview with @joncaramanica, another longtime Swift chronicler, covering her obsession with form, the ways in which she deploys improvisation and her surprising relationship to male vulnerability. nytimes.com/2026/05/01/arts/…
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