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Oliver Wang

Oliver Wang is a music writer, scholar, and DJ who created Soul-Sides.com. Since 1994, he's written on popular music, culture, race, and America for outlets such as NPR, Vibe, Wax Poetics, Scratch, The Village Voice, SF Bay Guardian, and LA Weekly.

Wang is also an associate professor in sociology at CSU-Long Beach and author of the book, "Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews of the SF Bay Area."

BeatTips Hip Hop Archive

Names on the Marquee: Bob James’s “Nautilus”

Oliver Wang Nov 12, 2024 0

Oliver Wang remembers one of the most sampled and interpolated songs in history, and points out why…

Beat Breakdown

Beat Breakdown: Main Source – “Looking At the Front Door”

Oliver Wang Nov 21, 2017 0

Oliver Wang breaks down Main Source’s “Looking At the Front Door” and points out why Large Professor’s…

BeatTips Hip Hop Archive

Names on the Marquee: Bob James’s “Nautilus”

Oliver Wang Jan 28, 2017 0

Oliver Wang remembers one of the most sampled and interpolated songs in history, and points out why…

Beat Breakdown

Beat Breakdown: Main Source – “Looking At the Front Door”

Oliver Wang Jan 4, 2017 1

Oliver Wang breaks down Main Source’s “Looking At the Front Door” and points out why Large Professor’s…

BeatTips Hip Hop Archive

Names on the Marquee: Rhetta Hughes’s “You’re Doing With Her — When It Should Be…

Oliver Wang Dec 14, 2016 0

Spotting new details in a classic Rhetta Hughes number. It can be a fool’s errand to try to…

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The Soul of Curtis Mayfield

Oliver Wang Dec 6, 2016 0

In the discussion of music, numerous names are tossed around. Sure, there are many recording artists who…