Paul Thompson

Building law and order in central London Digital Edition: Building law and order in central London In central London, main contractor Mace is transforming a plot of land into a centre for the judicial system Welcome. This content is exclusively for subscr... See more

Eazy-E’s Debut Album ‘Eazy-Duz-It’ Is A Crass, Confrontational Classic Decades later, the album is still a valuable document from one of hip-hop’s most daring MCs. When “Boyz-n-the-Hood” finally made the Billboard charts, Apple was rolling out its fifth g... See more

JAY-Z’s ‘The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse’ Shows Him In Uncharted Waters A compelling document of a rapper who’s nearly peerless, in his own generation and in hip-hop’s history. To understand The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse, one should ... See more

This is a weird one - kit is basically sound, but lots of small niggles, and bad decals. Anyway, here are a couple of photos. I've used the colour scheme I think it had before it was forced down into new ownership, but made no attempt to replicate the fin... See more

You could read the whole thing as a project against atomization. By the early 1990s, when the Los Angeles rap avant-garde coalesced around the Good Life Cafe on Crenshaw, distinctions were already being drawn: between New York and L.A., G-funk and jazz, t... See more