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Hello, Chicago! Oh. You're listening to sound opinions and this week we're talking with rapper Vic Mensa

about his new album Victor and as many other projects. I'm Jim De Regis.

And I'm Greg Kopp. But first we're talking with Rolling Stones Althea Legosby about the challenges

women face in music journalism and a few examples who have excelled in spite of them.

We want to welcome Althea Legosby to the show.

It's been too long since we chatted with you,thea but this extraordinary piece you did late

last month for Rolling Stone breaking through Rock Journalism Boys Club.

Wow super timely I know it's a piece that you struggled with but thought was really necessary.

I'll spare you the recap and do it myself.

Yon Winter, one of the founders of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, was out there touting

his new book of long interviews of him sitting with genius musicians, you know, Bono and Mick Jagger and you know quoted in the New York

Times saying when asked why there were no musicians of color or women, said they weren't as articulate as the men he spoke to, which got him canceled, kind of instantly, kicked off the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's executive

board, derided from every corner of the Rock journalism world, if you ask me maybe 40 years late since Rolling Stone

was problematic for many reasons of throughout its entire career.

But you are a senior news editor at Rolling Stone

and you do bang up work and we've talked to you

about numerous news stories over the last couple of years.

Again, it's been too long, your work to death by them.

But what prompted this article and was it difficult to pitch to Stone to your editors?

You know, I just wanted to correct the historical record and make sure that the

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