Hip-Hop
DaiN Ft Moniquea – Give it a try
Liquid Beat Records is proud to announce the release of “Gave it A Try”, the first single from Portland/New Orleans’ artist DaiN’s upcoming 7” single/producer EP entitled “Treat Yourself”. The song features an incredible vocal collaboration with LA’s modern Funk queen, Moniquea. The single pairs the singer over a knocking, down-tempo track that is indicative …
Album Review: Loyle Carner – Yesterday’s Gone
For so many years, our American cousins had the hip-hop game pretty much tied up. But over the last ten years or so, us Brits have fought back, delivering game-changing acts such as Dizzee, Wiley, and Tinchy. Last year Skepta scooped the Mercury music award, and Kano released his career best album ‘Made In The …
Track: Corina Corina – “Run The Blues”
Corina Corina Presents “Run The Blues”, A Tribute Album Dedicated To The Duo Of Killer Mike & El-P Oakland/Brooklyn-based electro-soul singer Corina Corina has spent the past five years touring nonstop. On a 2015 tour alongside Dj Halo (Fake Four), Corina began writing what would become a tribute project to two of her favorite artists, …
Feature: Best Hip-Hop Tracks of 2016
Last year for the first time we put together our favourite hip-hop tracks of 2015. With 2016 being an equally strong year for the genre, it only seemed right that we do another year end round-up. It seemed clear from the offset that we couldn’t possibly pick one favourite, so in no particular order, these are …
MEET: We interview Safakash, The new face of Canadian Hip-Hop
What do Drake, The Weeknd and Justin Bieber have in common? They all come from Toronto, the largest city in Canada. They have dominated global music charts throughout 2015-16 with their catchy pop tunes. And they also love to praise their home city, making Canada sound like a cool new place to make music. But …
New Music: Stephen Marley Review – Revelation Pt. II: The Fruit of Life
Hip hop owes a debt to reggae although it’s one that is not always appreciated or acknowledged. Jamaican foundation DJs of the early 1970s, like U Roy and Big Youth, chanted over riddims that were usually instrumental versions of popular songs in Jamaica and individual sound systems battled to rule the dancehalls. Fast forward to …
New Music: Die Antwoord drop video for Banana Brain
Die Antwoord, the iconoclastic and divisive rap ravers from Capetown, have just dropped their latest video for track “Banana Brain” taken from upcoming album Mount Ninji and Da Nice Time Kid. Whilst not as bizarre some of their previous offerings the video ,directed by Ninja & Terence Neale, has come under fire from some for …
Album Review: Dan Loops – An Album
All music fans look for something different in the songs they listen to. Some are suckers for a guitar riff, whilst others like the big power vocalists. Me, well I’m all about the lyrics. As a teenager I spent hours pouring over the words to the latest Tori Amos or Alanis Morisette, trying to dissect …
Track: Kate Tempest – Don’t Fall In
She’s one of our heroes, is Kate Tempest. Rapper, poet, playwright, novelist – she’s working to get some kind of monopoly on words, so it seems. Following on from her recently-released debut novel, The Bricks That Built The Houses, she’s revealed the companion album to the book, titled let them eat chaos. Released on October …
Track: Taiyamo Denku – Gutter Noise
With the recently announced news that New York emcee L. Majestic and fellow Wisco artist Rambunxious have signed to the Cypha Den Music imprint, the crew wastes no time releasing a joint effort alongside frontman Taiyamo Denku titled “Gutter Noise”. As you may have guessed, the song focuses around the underground roots that molded the …