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#229: Joe Coscarelli

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#229: Joe Coscarelli

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

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Nov 9, 2022
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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.

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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 …

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