Miles Marshall Lewis is a pop-culture critic, essayist, and fiction writer based in Harlem. A former editor at Vibe, XXL, Ebony.com, and BET.com, his essays and arts journalism have appeared in GQ, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Essence, Ebony, and many other publications. His infamous 2015 interview with Prince has been anthologized in Prince on Prince: Interviews and Encounters. He's also the author of Promise That You Will Sing About Me: The Power and Poetry of Kendrick Lamar, and is currently penning another cultural biography, The Lunatic’s Manifesto: Dave Chappelle in Black & White, for 2025.
Miles Marshall Lewis has been a guest on 1 episode.
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MILES MARSHALL LEWIS on Credibility in Music Journalism
August 5th, 2024 | 52 mins 17 secs
journalism, music
Miles Marshall Lewis is a cultural critic, journalist, and author of several books, the most recent being “Promise That You Will Sing About Me: The Power and Poetry of Kendrick Lamar”. He discusses his path to journalism, leaving New York City to live in Paris for several years, and his unexpected interview with Prince that led to an Ebony magazine cover story in 2015. As of August 5th 2024, he became the Cultural Historian for The Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx, opening in 2025.