Reel Notes w/ CineMasai

Dylan ”CineMasai” Green
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  • Music Interviews
  • Biweekly

Reel Notes is a space for conversations about the relationship between rap and film with rappers, producers, journalists, directors, and more. Intro track via JWords (follow her @_jwords on Instagram & Twitter) Logo & art direction via Big Flowers (Instagram/Twitter: @bigflowersguy)

  1. 21h ago

    DijahSB | S6 Episode 37

    If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually at $5 for regular episodes and $10 for Reel Talk playbacks (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is Toronto rapper DijahSB. We spoke about Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Silo, You Got Served, Final Destination, Interstellar, their beginnings on Soundcloud, the art and business of sync licensing, overcoming hurdles, having a song played during a Toronto Raptors game, and the creative process behind their Kickstarter-funded project Why Die When You Can Dance, out everywhere on Friday, November 6. Come f**k with us. Why Die When You Can Dance will be available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen on Friday, November 6. Follow Dijah on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok: @dijahsb Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, the Gaza Soup Kitchen, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and f**k the system.  My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon. Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all social platforms.

  2. Oct 28

    ladé | S6 Episode 36

    If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually at $5 for regular episodes and $10 for Reel Talk playbacks (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is Scottish DJ and producer ladé. We spoke about You Can See Everything, The Social Reckoning, Obsession, Nollywood cinema past and present, growing up listening to Bastille, developing her skills as a DJ and producer, her love for sampledelia and footwork, booking her first showcase, visiting New York, her appreciation for MIKE and Earl Sweatshirt, and the creative process behind her two EPs: Nollywood Nightmares and Yerba Mate. Come f**k with us.  Yerba Mate is available now wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping it and her other work from her Bandcamp page. Follow ladé on Instagram (@aladji__).  Read ladé's interview with Finals here. Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, the Gaza Soup Kitchen, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and f**k the system.  My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon. Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all social platforms.

  3. Oct 21

    Curly Castro (Take 2) | S6 Episode 35

    If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually at $5 for regular episodes and $10 for Reel Talk playbacks (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is Philadelphia-via-Brooklyn rapper, one-half of the duo ShrapKnel and member of the Wrecking Crew, Curly Castro. We spoke about The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable, the Carrie series, the Snowfall spin-off series The Drop, his complicated relationship with blaxploitation movies, a health update, reception to ShrapKnel’s Triple Steel Beam Collection, being personal on record, knowing when to get conceptual and when to be blunt, and the creative process behind his latest solo album Yaphet, produced entirely by Locust. Come f**k with us. Listen to our first interview from 2021 about his last solo album, Little Robert Hutton, here.  Yaphet is available now wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Castro's Bandcamp page or from the Backwoodz website. Follow Castro on Instagram (@curlycastro) and Twitter (@Curly_Castro).  Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, the Gaza Soup Kitchen, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and f**k the system.  My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon. Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all social platforms.

  4. Oct 14

    Keenyn Omari | S6 Episode 34

    If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually at $5 for regular episodes and $10 for Reel Talk playbacks (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is New York-based, Florida-born, and Georgia-raised producer and multi instrumentalist Keenyn Omari. We spoke about Eyes Wide Shut and the work of Stanley Kubrick, Marty Supreme and the allure of the antihero, The Lion King, wanting to be recognized for his beats, teaching himself how to play instruments from the sax to his trademark flute, playing music in the subway, appearing on The View with Lizzo, and the creative process behind his 4th Quarter beat tape series. Metropolitan Avenue Station, Keenyn's latest project of improvisational flute playing from the world-famous train platform, is available now wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping it via his Bandcamp page. Follow Keenyn on Instagram: @keenynomari.  Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, the Gaza Soup Kitchen, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and f**k the system.  My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon. Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all social platforms.

  5. Oct 7

    KILLVONGARD | S6 Episode 33

    If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually at $5 for regular episodes and $10 for Reel Talk playbacks (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is Chicago rapper, producer, and owner of Crushr Records, KILLVONGARD. We spoke about Primetime, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, If I Go Will They Miss Me?, Happiness and the movies of Todd Solondz, The Lion King, being unsettled by animatronics, working toward a sound for years, and the creative process, and trials and tribulations, behind his latest album When’s It Going To End? Come f**k with us. When's It Going To End? is available now wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Crushr's Bandcamp page. Follow KVG on Instagram and Twitter: @killvongard.  Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, the Gaza Soup Kitchen, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and f**k the system.  My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon. Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all social platforms.

  6. Sep 30

    Frank Leone | S6 Episode 32

    If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually at $5 for regular episodes and $10 for Reel Talk playbacks (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is Illinois-based rapper, producer, screenwriter, and director Frank Leone. We spoke about Louise Weard’s Castration Film series, Widow’s Bay, Mulholland Drive and the works of David Lynch, the difference between working on a movie and working on an album, mementos from the blog era, and the creative process behind his projects Fish and FREE IMPATIENCE!, his upcoming EP produced entirely by GKFAM’s Devin Burgess. Come f**k with us. FREE IMPATIENCE! will be available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen on Friday, October 2. Vinyl is available via Fused Arrow Records, which you can preorder on Bandcamp. Follow Frank on Instagram (@frankleone_) and Twitter (@thefrankleone). Follow Devin on Instagram (@devinburgessmusic).  Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, the Gaza Soup Kitchen, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and f**k the system.  My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon. Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all social platforms.

  7. Sep 23

    Cognito | S6 Episode 31

    If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually at $5 for regular episodes and $10 for Reel Talk playbacks (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is North Carolina-based photographer, member of the group massinfluence, and co-founder of FroLab, Cognito! We spoke about Lanterns, Watchmen, Westworld, Spike Lee’s Malcom X, charting hip-hop’s growth from the beginning to now, his time managing a Fat Beats location, forays into event promotion, fashion, and photography, documenting rappers from Black Star to MF DOOM, and the photos at the center of Yasiin Bey’s recent reissue of his 2009 album The Ecstatic. Come f**k with us. The reissue of The Ecstatic on vinyl, CD, and cassette tape, as well as the deluxe edition vinyl paired with a book of Cognito's photos, is all available now via Rhymesayers Entertainment. The album can be purchased digitally on Bandcamp and streamed exclusively via Qobuz. Follow Cognito on Instagram (@cognito333) and Twitter (@FROLAB), and check out his personal website to stay tapped in with all things Cognito.  Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, the Gaza Soup Kitchen, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and f**k the system.  My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon. Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all social platforms.

  8. Sep 16

    Omari Lyseight | S6 Episode 30

    If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually at $5 for regular episodes and $10 for Reel Talk playbacks (Buy it through a web browser and not the Patreon app. You'll get charged extra if you purchase through the app.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk archives, and more! My guest this week is London rapper-producer and engineer Omari Lyseight. We spoke about Toy Story 5, Pokémon, Garfield, Cats & Dogs, his connection to both London and New York, his time with Trackout Records and Ammi Boyz, sharpening his skills on SoundCloud, linking with Mike and Earl Sweatshirt, a handful of his placements, and the creative process behind his debut album Digital, out now via Surf Gang Records. Come f**k with us. Digital is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping on Bandcamp, and read my review of the album on Pitchfork. Follow Omari on Instagram (@omari_lyseight) and Twitter (@OmariLyseight). Follow Surf Gang on Instagram (@surfgang1) and Twitter (@1surfgang). Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and f**k the system.  My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon. Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all social platforms.

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Reel Notes is a space for conversations about the relationship between rap and film with rappers, producers, journalists, directors, and more. Intro track via JWords (follow her @_jwords on Instagram & Twitter) Logo & art direction via Big Flowers (Instagram/Twitter: @bigflowersguy)

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  • Creator
    Dylan ”CineMasai” Green
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    264
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Reel Notes w/ CineMasai
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