hip-hop/rap
Track: ASM – Grape ft Cutty Ranks
ASM (A State of Mind) is a European rap trio based principally of MC’s Green and FP, joined by DJ/Producer Fade. Three albums in and net sales of well into six figures have led to the band seemingly doing as they please, and in this case it’s putting out their new single on 7″ vinyl …
See: Chris Orrick releases new video for Out to Sea, plus album news
Alternative hip-hop artist Chris Orrick has just shared a new video for the title track of his forthcoming album, Out to Sea, available from May 24th via Mello Music Group. Supposedly based on being, or at least feeling, mentally ‘Out to Sea’, and disconnected from society/the internet. The track sees Orrick’s listenable flow, as he …
Track: Jachary – Posse Cut #1
Jachary, aka singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Zachary Levine-Caleb, has released his new track ‘Posse Cut #1’, so called because of the collaborative and loose nature of it, which saw no less than 13 guest artists including rappers, vocalists and horn players jump on the trackdown at lovelove studios where it was recorded. As with Jachary’s …
Track: Balkan Bump – Aymo feat. Talib Kweli
Essentially the project of trumpet player, producer and ethnomusicologist Will Magid, Balkan Bump has already made waves, pulling in superstar collaborators such as Gramatik and Talib Kweli, and fusing them with his Balkan brass an beats. He wrote the track after meeting Talib Kweli when they were playing alongside Pretty Lights on The Conan O’Brien …
Premiere: Linqua Franqa – Gold Bike
Taken from her The Model Minority album, out February 23rd on HHBTM Records, Anthens-based rapper Mariah Parker aka Linqua Franqa is about to release the third single Gold Bike – premiering here on Backseat Mafia today. Using all the skills she learnt during her masters degree in linguistics at the University of Georgia, Parker is …
Track: Uppermost – Slide ft. Yudimah
Lifted from his upcoming album, Perseverance, Slide ft. Yudimah is the latest single from Paris based, producer Behdad Nejatbakhshe aka Uppermost. His recent singles ‘Make A Change’ and ‘Step By Step ft. Sôra’ have seen his stock rise, and he’s turned heads in many of the more influential magazines and blogs. This latest effort features …
See: Famous Dex releases new video for Pick it Up, feat. A$ap Rocky
Ahead of Famous Dex’s debut album, Dex Meets Dexter, available for fans this Spring, he’s released new visuals for his latest single ‘Pick it Up’, which features hip-hop superstar A$AP Rocky. The Chicago rapper burst onto the scene in 2015, quickly coming to the attention of A$AP Ferg, appearing on two records from his latest …
Track: Young Fathers – In my view
Following last Novembers news that Young Fathers had completed work on their new album, the trio – Alloysious Massaquoi, Graham ‘G’ Hastings and Kayus Bankole have followed up the first glimpse of the new record, Lord, with a new track In my view. They’ve also revealed more details of the album. Titled Cocoa Sugar, the …
See: The Knux reveal new video for “Mirage”
You might remember New Orleans alt-rappers The Knux from the late noughties sharing management with Eminem and releasing a couple of albums, Remind me in three days…, and Eraser, and working with rap heavyweights such as Common, Nas, Kid Cudi and Q-Tip. Now the brothers – Kentrell “Krispy” Lindsey and Alvin “Joey” Lindsey, are back …
Track: Mercury nominee’s Young Fathers release new single, Soon Come Soon
When this year’s Mercury nominations were announced, I don’t think anybody would have picked Young Fathers out as the winner. But that’s the beauty of the Mercurys. They don’t always pick the obvious choice, and often go for something a little more innovative and leftfield. But win they did with album ‘DEAD’. It brought the …