O editorial da penúltima edição da Wax Poetics (n.º 48, Setembro deste ano) é um dos melhores que já li do André Torres. É precedido por uma afirmação do Theophilus London: "There are magazines and blogs that were all over This Charming Mixtape when it came out, but they aren't covering me now, when they should be... They want to hype the next big thing but don't stay with that artist as the grow (...)".

Então, entra o André Torres. Reza assim:

"It's interesting to hear newcomer Theophilus London, who owes much of his initial buzz to these magazines and blogs, express his true feelings about media today. Even as magazine publisher myself, I couldn't agree with him more. But sadly, this is the state of music writing. Real journalism has been replaced with "feeding the beast". Churning out a people hundred words on the next bing thing is a daily operation, and everyone's tripping on themselves to get there first. That's never been our thing: we've always put quality over quantity. But at the end of last year, I pondered this past decade at Wax Poetics and began lookong foward to the next. I'm hopeful about the future of hip-hop and music in general. But when I went back looking through the issues of Wax Poetics, I found that over the years, many of the new artists we were convering weren't getting as much ink as they were when we first started".

Depois, mais à frente, sobre Nina Simone:

"Nina Simone was a true musical pioneer who knew all too well the strugles involved in the freedom of Black expression. A classicaly trained child prodigy scarred by systematic racism early in life, she became a true voice for civil rights at a time her peers simply didn't. But it was the devastation from the racism that fueled Simone into using her voice to spread the truth, challenging listeners to think for themselves.

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She was Black power before there was Black power. Just as she hoped, Simone's "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black" (...) has become the unoficial Black National Anthem for a generation of whom "Lift Every Voice and Sing" falls flat. This is protest music at its rawest, and Simone brought the noise like no other".