#229: Joe Coscarelli

Joe Coscarelli on Herr's Ketchup Chips, Babytron, Not Finishing Books, and more.

Cool people like cool things, which is why we asked Joe Coscarelli to share a taste of his taste on Perfectly Imperfect.

Joe Coscarelli is a New York City-based Pop Music Reporter at The New York Times who has a brand new book titled Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story. It’s a “masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation” that dives into the history of the consequential Atlanta rap scene, megastars like Lil Baby and Migos, and lesser-known local artists like Lil Reek and Marlo. Coscarelli is also the host of very popular NYT Diary of a Song series on Youtube and a frequent guest on Jon Caramanica’s aptly named pop music podcast, Popcast. Lucky for us, Joe is here to tell us what he’s been into.

Without further ado

Joe Coscarelli (twitter, instagram)

🥔 Herr's ketchup chips

Ask anyone: I was into rare and extreme snack variations before the usually-poorly-executed Big Flavor Explosion of the last few years, in which Oreo makes a Swedish Fish cookie just to go viral or …