One of the best music magazines in existence, Wax Poetics, has an insanely in-depth interview/oral history in its hiphop issue with Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad production crew: Chuck D, Hank and Keith Shocklee, and Eric “Vietnam” Sadler. If you care anything about the best rap group ever (I’m willing to entertain differing opinions), then you need to check out this piece.

Also in WP’s quality pages are a heartfelt tribute to the recently deceased J Dilla by hiphop luminaries such as Q-Tip, De La Soul, Jazzy Jeff, Common, Questlove, Waajeed, Peanut Butter Wolf, and others but, oddly, not Madlib; maybe he was too distraught), an overview of the Bay Area’s hyphy scene, a reminiscence about the early DJ battles in NYC among Kool Herc, Pete Jones, and “seminal rapper” Grandmaster Flash, and loads of other literary nuggets for the hiphop aficionado/crate-digger.