Israel Daramola

Israel Daramola

Critic and Writer. Israel has written reviews, features, interviews, scripts, and ads for a number of outlets and companies.

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  • The Music Video Sartorialist: Nelly’s “Country Grammar”

    The Music Video Sartorialist is a new column in which I will review the fashion of various music videos. First up: the 2000 masterpiece “Country Grammar” by Nelly. Before we even get into this, let me just say that the music video for “Country Grammar” is pure love. There is not one bad thing I […]

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    Israel Daramola

    September 18, 2015
    the music video sartorialist
    2015, fashion, hip-hop, music video, Nelly, rap, sartorialist, st lunatics
  • What Is Kanye Doing?

    I am growing exhausted pretending Kanye West is a genius. It is tiring having to pretend that the reason I don’t like the things he’s doing is because I don’t “get” it. I genuinely like Yeezus a lot and just that fact alone is weighs heavy on my spirit because as interesting and purposefully off-putting […]

    Israel Daramola

    September 17, 2015
    Uncategorized
    2015, fashion, fashion week, hip-hop, kanye west, music, new york, nyfw, swish
  • This Is Your Peak

    I know you think you’re bound for better things but you aren’t. This is it for you. You’ve achieved the most success you will ever achieve in your life. Congratulations I guess? It’s sort of an accomplishment. The next time will be going through the five stages of grief. In a misguided use of your […]

    Israel Daramola

    September 15, 2015
    Uncategorized
    2015, personal essay, the cold clammy hands of death, the gloomy spectre of irrelevance
  • Confessing Your Love To Complete Strangers

    Sorry I’ve been staring at you awkwardly and with such intensity, it’s just that I’m in love with you. I know we don’t know each other and you’ve never actually met me, but I know love when it hits. I’m sorry I keep staring and examining your fingers, it’s just that I want to marry […]

    Israel Daramola

    September 10, 2015
    Uncategorized
    first impressions, humor, list, love, obsession
  • The Internet Is Not Your Friend

    I was 24 the first time it dawned on me that I will never be cool. I don’t mean cool in a general sense of course, but cool in the way that all people want to secretly believe themselves to be: in a way that says I exude attitude and mystery everywhere I go and […]

    Israel Daramola

    August 28, 2015
    opinion piece
    facebook, friend, internet, longform, myspace, social media, twitter
  • A Guide To Telling Your Parents They Should Get Divorced

    A Guide To Telling Your Parents They Should Get Divorced

    You should be allowed to tell the people you love to get a divorce. That should be something that is deemed ok if the situation calls for it. But you can’t. Society says your goal in life is ultimately to get married and spawn children, and if you’re a woman, that’s pretty much all you’re […]

    Israel Daramola

    August 18, 2015
    Uncategorized
  • There’s No Romance In Dying

    I am in a room in my parent’s house. For brevity purposes, I’ll call it my room but it is not really mine and it was imperative of my parents to remind me of this at opportune times. This room is my home and my prison; a safe space at one moment and hell in […]

    Israel Daramola

    August 12, 2015
    Uncategorized
    black, death, music, punk rock
  • We Still Don’t Deserve Rihanna

    We Still Don’t Deserve Rihanna

    There are people who celebrate Christmas in order to remember the love, mercy and sacrifice bestowed by the Lord Jesus Christ. For me, my Christmas is the day new pictures of Rihanna at a Carnival emerge. I sit by the lights of my macbook with gleeful anticipation for said pictures because unlike actual Christmas, Rihanna […]

    Israel Daramola

    August 4, 2015
    Uncategorized
    2015, barbados, carnival, rihanna
  • R&B Round-Up: Bosco, Janine And The Mixtape, Rico Love, MNEK and more

    Bosco – Boy Initially, my impression when committing to listening to this record was that I was in store for more whispery Alt-R&B tumblr music. In some ways that’s what this is but the saving grace is that Bosco has a really good voice that is used in really effective ways most of the time […]

    Israel Daramola

    June 14, 2015
    music
    2015, bosco, grace, janine and the mixtape, miss ester dean, mnek, music, new, r&B, rico love
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

    George Miller made a movie that looks like a bump of the finest cocaine. It’s visually aggressive, it’s incredibly fast and extremely chaotic despite being a laser-focused story and production. Mad Max: Fury Road is extremely unique in the current Summer blockbuster climate: it’s fast, the story is thin yet fully formed, it allows women […]

    Israel Daramola

    May 21, 2015
    Movies
    2015, blockbuster, film, fury road, mad max, summer movie
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