A college roommate’s 48-disc hip-hop mixtape series sent me digging back through the music that shaped my late-’90s and early-2000s years. Rebuilt as a 695-track Spotify playlist, it became part nostalgia trip, part musical archaeology, and part reckoning with what still holds up, what does not, and what young Weez was absorbing along the way. Continue reading DJ Notorious and the Soundtrack of A Younger Weez