@truelaurels

truelaurels has been a member of Linktree for 4 years and joined in November 2021. Besides social media accounts, truelaurels has populated their site with True Laurels: Best of 2025 (YouTube), No Sense In Wishing Celebration, Best Songs of 2025 (Spotify), Best Songs of 2025 (Apple Music), ‘Baltimore has the worst PR of any city in America’: a culture critic on his home town, race, police and art | Black US culture | The Guardian, Jay Electronica: A Written Testimony: Leaflets / A Written Testimony: Power at the Rate of My Dreams / A Written Testimony: Mars, the Inhabited Planet Album Review | Pitchfork, Writing to Liberate Yourself | Los Angeles Review of Books, Dev Hynes Interview for GQ, See Baltimore arts through a native son in the new book 'No Sense in Wishing' : NPR, Politics and Prose Talk With Hanif Abdurraqib, Lawrence Burney on How Baltimore, VICE, and Hip-Hop DVDs Shaped His Writing | Victory Light Ep. 132, Lawrence Burney and Brandon Jinx Jenkins - Weekday Night Live at P&T | Podcast on Spotify, Writer Lawrence Burney On How Regional Rap Debates Made Him Examine 'Country-ness', One Simple Trick for Getting Your Teen Daughter to Talk to You, Sparkheem: Now That’s What I Call Crank! 25, Turnstile Cover Story for Pitchfork, Justsmile Magazine - Carmelo and Kiyan Anthony — Like Father, Like Son, Let Me Show You How to Bip: Tracing the Origins of Hip-Hop’s Favorite New Word, Vybz Kartel is reclaiming his throne, Rediscovered: Dead Prez, ‘Let’s Get Free’, On Kendrick Lamar’s ‘GNX’, The Hardest Diss Song Is A History Lesson, Hugh Mundell: Africa Must Be Free by 1983, André De Shields Made It To the Top With Patience, Grace—And a Whole Lot of Talent, Lionel Boyce Is the Secret Sauce, True Laurels: Best of 2024, True Laurels: Best of 2024 on Apple Music, True Laurels: Best of 2024 (Spotify), Farewell to The Crown, a sanctuary for Baltimore’s underground music scene, The Drake/Kendrick Lamar Beef Has a Winner. Where Do We Go From Here?, The Flattening of Bob Marley’s Radicalism, Ramy Youssef is Ready For Some Hard Conversations, Tierra Whack Takes Her Mask Off, Cover Story: Kelela — True Laurels, Stavros Halkias Can Tell When You're Lying, An Appreciation of Project Pat, a Quiet Forefather of Modern Day Rap, Linda Martell: Color Me Country, Burna Boy Sounds Creatively Exhausted, True Laurels: Best of 2023 (Spotify), True Laurels: Best of 2023 (Apple Music), The Culture Report: How the ‘I Got A Monster’ documentary chooses community over cops, True Laurels: Best Baltimore + DMV Songs of 2022 (Spotify), True Laurels: Best Songs of 2022 (Spotify), Revisiting Tha Bloc, Along The Parkway Episode 1: Kelow LaTesha and Baby Kahlo.