Hip-Hop
Live Review: Ras G, Low Leaf and Zeroh @ Electrowerkz
The continuing popularity of Kiss as a live act demonstrates that live music is about a whole lot more than music, it’s about performance as well. On the London date of their tour the need for performance was made abundantly clear with support acts Low Leaf and, to a lesser extent, Zeroh delivering exciting and …
See: Flying Lotus releases new video for Never Catch Me feat. Kendrick Lamar
It would be fair to say that Kendrick Lamar’s new single ‘i’ has been controversial, with many seeing it as Kendrick’s play for the radio. That the Kendrick featuring ‘Never Catch Me’, off of Flying Lotus’ new album ‘You’re Dead!’, came out just a week or so beforehand probably didn’t help matters. Whilst both tracks …
Track: Andy Kayes – What I Know
Globetrotting English MC Andy Kayes writes what he knows. That’s the stories of his own life, and he does it whether thats on his own, through the episodes of “J’irai rapper chez vous” (home invasion), or the various stage appearances he makes with Bonetrips. 2012’s debut album ‘Alone in Numbers’ showed he was a rapper …
New Music: Uzzee – TYT
22 year old London born rapper Uzzee is set to release his debut EP, Evolution, next week and from it he’s streaming the emotion filled electro of TYT, or Take Your Time. He’s drafted in some hot producers to work their magic over the release, with young UK producer Jelacee of Stooki Sound, Hawaiian based …
See: Bunji Garlin releases video for “Truck on D Road”
In support of his album Differentology, out this week via a joint release from RCA and VP Records, comes the new video from one of Trinidad & Tobago’s biggest exports, Bunji Garlin. His new album mixes up Soca, EDM, dancehall and even hip-hop into something thats exciting, engaging, and might just propel him into global …
New Music: Freddie Gibbs / Young Thug / A$AP Ferg – Old English
‘Old English’ really shouldn’t work. A track which features such disparate vocal talents – Gibbs’ guttural gangsta rap growl, Young Thug’s unhinged yelp and A$AP Ferg’s demented bark – with such different approaches in their own music – it’s hard to imagine that hip-hop traditionalist thinks much of Young Thug’s ‘Picacho‘ – shouldn’t work, but …
Track: Frankenstein feat. Luminous release The Roughtalk from reissue – “The Science of Sound”
Taken from the golden era of hip-hop, Hillside, New Jersey label Ill Adrenaline Recordshas jumped on possibly Canada‘s finest Rapper Frankenstein back catalogue. for their new release ‘The Science Of Sound’. First stepping into the underground scene with his partner AZ, and known as the Delphi Oracle in 1994 with the release of …
Video: Ratking featuring King Krule – So Sick Stories
A slower slice of troubling hip-hop, following the paranoid claustrophobia of “100”. NYC’s new rap heroes mix it up with London’s King Krule. The video for “So Sick Stories” puts Ratking and their British guest in a set of nondescript, alienating, brutalistic urban locales. Their cross to bear is one of sadness, anger, listlessness, lived …
Track: Ty – Kick Snare and an Idea Part 3
New year, new music from Ty. And it’s something we’re looking forward to a lot, following parts 1 & 2 of the London rappers ‘Kick Snare and an Idea’ series. It’s been heightened further by the inclusion of a remix from the NYC DJ and producer DJ Spinna. Out on 20th January on Tru Thoughts, …
Track: Blitz the Ambassador – Bisa ft. Nneka, Ty
So today was September. and here in Sheffield, it was like they switched off the Summer and switched on the Autumn. As i ventured out this morning, I had to wander straight back inside to get a jumper, and, however much I tried to stay out in the garden this afternoon, the wind blowing in …