Musiccosmos

Awkwafina (real name Nora Lum) had her first breakout with a few jokey rap singles like “My Vag” (a response to the “My Dick” song) and the anti-trust fund anthem “NYC Bitche$,” both of which ended up on her 2014 debut project Yellow Ranger . As you may know, in the time since then, she took to acting (appearing in MTV’s Girl Code , the Seth Rogen movie Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising , and more, and she was profiled in the Bad Rap film), and now she’s in two of the summer’s biggest movies: Ocean’s 8 and Crazy Rich Asians . As a more famous artist than ever, Awkwafina took a moment to write an essay that reflects on her upwards climb, and how “My Vag” and “NYC Bitche$” almost ruined her career. It reads: In 2012 I put a video called My Vag on YouTube, knowing that it probably wouldn’t do well – and it would make the laughing stock of every job interview ever. I wrote a song called NYC Bitches while making $9/hr at a vegan bodega. After it went on YouTube, a man came in asked if I...

On a gritty but exhilarating episode of After Hours AM/The Criminal Code — True Crime Wednesdays 9-11pE with hosts Joel Sturgis, Eric Olsen, and Dr. Clarissa Cole — we welcome director Jamie Meltzer and star Christopher Scott of the award-winning PBS documentary T rue Conviction , about a trio of exonerated former prisoners, led by Scott, out to help others also wrongly convicted. We talk with Jamie and Christopher in the 10pE hour; at 9pE Joel and Eric review the latest True Crime headlines. True Conviction In director Jamie Meltzer’s documentary True Conviction , a remarkable trio of detectives seeks freedom for those wrongfully convicted. After serving a combined 60 years in prison for crimes they did not commit, three recently exonerated Texans — Christopher Scott, Johnnie Lindsey and Steven Phillips — join forces to form the unlikeliest investigative team, on a mission to help wrongfully convicted prisoners obtain the freedom that eventually came to them. True Conviction p...