Starting from a conversation between Jonathan Gray and Henry Jenkins, Wayne Marshall ponders the utility of “paratext” (”all those things that surround a book that aren’t quite the ‘thing’ itself…the cover, prefaces, typeface, and afterwords, but also reviews”) for music:
…“Crank Dat”…perhaps best illustrates the problem with trying to apply a theory of para/texts to music [...]

UGK 4 Life While far from the year’s best album and definitely not its best story, UGK’s (possible) final album is by far the most important musical anything in my world this year. Pimp C is probably the only artist for whom I consider myself a fanboy, and his death has left a major void [...]