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TRACK: CEILING DEMONS – ILLUSIONS

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TRACK: HANNI EL KHATIB – STRESSY

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Album Review : Flying Lotus’ ‘Flamagra’

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By 1991, although my roots were still embedded in Hip Hop, the rest of me was leaning ever more towards the ends of indie rock and the birth of britpop. I had just moved to Cirencester from Loughborough and was still getting to grips with the shift in culture when, one lazy and hungover Saturday …

After a three year gap since his last album, Bottom’s Up, Detroit rapper Obie Trice is back with a new long player, The Hangover, which drops on August 7th through his own Black Market Entertainment label. He’s drafted in the likes of Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Estelle and G-Unit’s Young Buck, along with production from …

Meridian Dan scored a huge hit with last years grime crossover, ‘German Whip’, picking up fans, attention and multiple 2014 MOBO Awards nominations along the way. Now he’s back with a new track, ‘The Bits’, produced by Two Inch Punch and Noah Breakfast. Splashed in pads and rippling percussive beats, this bassline drops on the …

On tour with Young Fathers currently, we managed to catch up with Ghanaian-British poet Kojey Radical who recorded an exclusive version of his latest track Bambu (I Don’t Really Worry ‘Bout Nothin’). Its a follow up to last years Dear Daisy: Opium EP, and sees the performer, in our video at least, thoroughly compelling – …

Kentish Town Forum was packed from front to back come 9.15pm, when Run the Jewels took to the stage. Killer Mike (from Atlanta) and El-P (from New York City) are both accomplished in their respective fields of rapping and producing, and have already made names for themselves over various records. But something new and exciting …

Ahead of his forthcoming new album, The Meth Lab, legendary rapper and sometime Wu-Tang Clansman Method Man is back with a new single, and the title track from his record. Teaming up with long term collaborators Hanz On and Streetlife for the song, its fresh and fierce and features Method Man demanding your attention. Characterised …

Legendary Detroit two piece hip-hop crew Insane Clown Posse, aka Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope are back with a new album The Marvellous Missing Link (LOST), with another installment (FOUND) dropping on July 28th. Its their first new music since 2012’S The Mighty Death Pop!, and from it the band have released a new …

We’re serial supporters of Nottingham duo Sleaford Mods here on Backseat Mafia, so its with some excitement that the band have released details of their third ‘proper’ album, Key Markets, out on July 10th via Harbinger Sound. As with the bands DIY aesthetic, they’ve involved themselves in everything, with the exception of the Steve Lippert …

Out right now on Boy Better Know is the new single from London grime producer and MC Skepta. It’s proved to be a fruitful time with March seeing Skepta join Kanye West onstage at both the Brit Awards (for a performance of ‘All Day’) and a night at London’s Koko. He’s also returning the favour …

Writer: Carmen Efferson Compton’s native son delivers a sound riot revolution with a backbeat and a message to young black males the ghost of Mandela hope my flows they propel it let these words be your earth and moon you consume every message – Kendrick Lamar AND JUST LIKE THAT…in one massive broad stroke of …