"This Rhyme Flow Take Practice Like Tae Bo"

The ultra-celebrated Ta-Nehisi Coates has lent us plenty of support over the years, so we'd like to return the favor by calling attention to his latest conquest: the vaunted pages of The New Yorker, where his killer MF Doom profile just debuted. Though to call it a mere profile is a disservice—it's also a meditation on the essence of hip-hop and, more fundamentally, the challenges of maintaining one's love for an art form as the years stack up. Oh, and one of the piece's interviews was...