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Clover Hope

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  • Esquire
  • NPR
  • Jezebel
  • Harper's Bazaar
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Deadspin
  • Grist

Past articles by Clover:

Kid Cudi Profile: On ‘Entergalactic,’ His History With Kanye, and Finding Self-Love

Not all that long ago, the now-38-year-old was in rehab and at a mental health low-point. Now he's got new music, a new tour, and a new Netflix show—and he says exactly what he needs to say, exactly when he needs to say it. What a difference a couple years makes. → Read More

NPR

Tiny Desk Playlist: Women Run The Rap Game

Writer and author Clover Hope highlights her five favorite Tiny Desks by women rappers. → Read More

The Unstoppable Rise of Cardi B

Instagram launched a simple yet radical feature in June 2013: the ability to upload videos in addition to photos. Finally, users could bombard their followers with fifteen-second snippets of their lives, which was a bad omen for Vine, the six-second video app made popular by teens. (Vine died three years later.) But it was life-changing for people like Cardi B. → Read More

Jhené Aiko's Summer Anthem Makes Room for Joy

Mad for it: Jhené Aiko, “Summer 2020” - Jhené Aiko’s music has long conjured the humidity of a summer day, with her intensely relaxed voice floating on synths like pool inflatables. The endeavor to make a low-key summer anthem, then is something of a no-brainer, and “Summer 2020” comes as one of nine new tracks on the newly released deluxe edition of her already stuffed Chilombo album from… → Read More

Writer Elizabeth Méndez Berry On Protecting the 'Inconvenient Women' in Hip-Hop

Fifteen years ago, Vibe magazine published a disturbing exposé in its March 2005 issue. For a piece titled “Love Hurts,” writer Elizabeth Méndez Berry reported on cases of intimate partner violence among young Black and Latinx people. Méndez Berry cited a number of prominent hip-hop figures who were accused of domestic violence, among them Dr. Dre, the Notorious B.I.G., Busta Rhymes, Damon Dash,… → Read More

All the Shit We Bought For Our Homes Now That We're In Them All Day

Disclaimer: The editorial staff of Jezebel independently chooses each product in Shit I Bought, and every staffer has purchased said shit of their own accord, with their own money. If you purchase something using our affiliate links, G/O Media may earn a commission. Affiliate linking does not influence our editorial content. → Read More

Insecure Reminds Us That Unfortunately, Issa and Lawrence Are Cute Together

The one time Issa and Lawrence got closure on the love they lost was the Season 2 finale of Insecure, which aired in 2017. At that point, Issa was squandering her potential, and Lawrence was in professional limbo, on the rebound from Issa’s cheating. Standing in the apartment Issa has since left, Lawrence apologized, saying, “I’m sorry for not being who you expected me to be. Who I expected me… → Read More

Lady Gaga and BLACKPINK Make Sour Sound Sweet

Y: Lady Gaga ft. BLACKPINK, “Sour Candy” - Until YG Entertainment makes good on their promise of a new BLACKPINK album in 2020, I will settle for a collaboration with Lady Gaga. “Settle” might be too demeaning a word—“Sour Candy” is a catchy confection as much as it is an acidic Eurodance club banger, and I appreciate the meeting of minds between Gaga and K-pop girl group BLACKPINK. “I’m sour… → Read More

Rain on Me, Rain, Rain, Rain! On! Me!

Yes: Lady Gaga feat. Ariana Grande, “Rain On Me” - Dance Gaga is back, thank god! The latest from Chromatica is a smoldering disco song featuring Grande that’s giving me Kyle Minogue’s “Love at First Sight” vibes. You think Grande, who is so earnest and pitch-perfect, wouldn’t be a match for Gaga’s campier vocals (like when she bellows, “I’ll be your galaxy, rain on me tsunami,” like she’s a… → Read More

The New, Messy Generation of Hip-Hop Heirs on Reality TV

Recently, I became obsessed with the WE tv franchise Growing Up Hip-Hop, the cast of which is comprised of former child-star rappers like Bow Wow and also the children of rappers who were famous in a distant past. What initially drew me to the show were the names: Lil Wayne, T.I., Pepa, Treach, and my former high school crush Ja Rule, to name a few. But this show is not at all about them. It’s a… → Read More

The Maddening Dullness of Vanderpump Rules

It’s been a long season for viewers of Vanderpump. I’d normally summarize events up top, but I’m at a loss for what exactly happened. Did they do a Pride episode? Was there even a cast trip? Was Jax and Brittany’s wedding this season or the last one? Questions with easily-found answers, but I’m at a deficit of motivation to even go looking. I’ve changed, this show has changed, and now I find… → Read More

Here's an Isolation Love Song, Courtesy of Charli XCX

Y: Charli XCX, “i finally understand” - Charli XCX’s latest release, “i finally understand,” off her upcoming quarantine album, is exactly the vibe I have been looking for at this stage of lockdown. The song’s constant but contained energy has me bopping in my seat, without going so hard that I just get depressed about not being able to go out and dance with my friends at the club. According to… → Read More

Dress Up and Dance in the House to This Doja Cat Remix With Nicki Minaj

Yes, yes: Doja Cat, Nicki Minaj “Say So (Remix)” - I love me a psychedelic skate-rink song, a breathy, candylicious bop you can daydream to. So this is right up my alley. Doja was smart to borrow Nicki for this; she shouts out her own ass shots and raps, as slick and timely as ever, “I got dressed just to sit in the house.” Funny ’cause it’s true. —Clover Hope → Read More

Jessie Ware's New Song Confirms She Is the Sorceress of Horny

If she was born in the 1600s, they’d burn her at the stake for being a witch: Jessie Ware, “Ooh La La” — Jessie Ware has long established herself as a sorceress of the horny, an arcane songstress who’s expansive soundscapes and honey-smooth vocal prowess have enraptured listeners since Devotion. But unlike the sun-soaked Glasshouse, her latest spate of singles—“Spotlight,” “Mirage,” and the… → Read More

The Dream Knows His Lane, and It's Sex Songs

Y: The Dream, “Nothing Will Feel the Same” - As sure as the sun will shine and the wind will blow, so will The Dream continue to make songs about love and sex (but mostly sex) in the style of ’90s balladeers like Jodeci and BLACKstreet. “Nothing Will Feel the Same” is from the just-released fourth entry in his cycle of SexTape albums (or mixtapes—at this point, there’s basically a nominal… → Read More

Usher, Ludacris, and Lil Jon Made Another Good Dirty R&B Song

Yeah!: Usher, Lil Jon, Ludacris, “SexBeat” - The triple-threat alliance that is Usher, Ludacris, and Lil Jon has worked wonders in the past, making the sort of classically dirty R&B that turns out magical: 2004's “Yeah!” “Lovers and Friends,” and now their new joint, “SexBeat,” which Lil Jon previewed during his Instagram Live battle with T-Pain. The song follows the same Atlanta-bounce formula… → Read More

Dua Lipa Makes Us DANCE

I’m physically gagging on all this future nostalgia: Dua Lipa, “Break My Heart” - If you’re going to heavily reference Giorgio Moroder, in the run-up to an album named Future Nostalgia, you better give the girls something brilliant. Unfortunately, the grand-daddy of disco covered light-years of the great, big sonic expanse throughout his career, which worked well for him, and not so well for… → Read More

All the World Is a Stage for Keke Palmer

With a natural showmanship and a studied ability to harness the power of the Internet, Palmer is defining millennial stardom one meme at a time. → Read More

Get Into the Sweet, Manufactured Magic of Zumbo's Just Desserts

In 2019, I went into a deep sugar dive that involved bingeing several shows about sweets: Nailed It, a series that pits nonprofessional bakers against each other and lovingly ridicules their abominable creations; Sugar Rush, a similar, less rude but I think more stressful timed competition; and Zumbo’s Just Desserts, a Chocolate Factory-style contest built on the provocation of expertise. The… → Read More

How Will the Democratic Primaries End? A Movie Idea

What if there was a movie in which the top two candidates during the Democratic Primaries didn’t make it to the end? What if things happened that were beyond their control? This is a totally fictional cinematic portrayal. → Read More