Miles Marshall Lewis is the Cultural Historian of The Hip Hop Musuem, a pop-culture critic, essayist and fiction writer based in Harlem. A former editor at Vibe, XXL, Ebony.com, and BET.com, his essays and arts journalism have appeared in GQ, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Essence, Ebony, and many other publications. His infamous 2015 interview with Prince has been anthologized in Prince on Prince: Interviews and Encounters.  He’s also the author of Promise That You Will Sing About Me: The Power and Poetry of Kendrick Lamar, and is currently penning another cultural biography, The Lunatic’s Manifesto: Dave Chappelle in Black & White, for 2025.