Hiphop
See: UK rapper Karizma releases jazz-inflected new single, ‘Ostrich’
With a host of collaborators littering his past work, including Rodney P, Verb Y and Scorzayzee, UK rapper Karizma has returned with a new sound and partnership with producer Jack Wolff, and a new single called “Ostrich”, taken from his debut album due out next year. Taking everyday blunders as its tongue-in-cheek lyrical heart, and …
Track: Leddie MC – Way Back When ft. Eyeconic and Chris Davison
North East Rapper Leddie MC is finishing her year off with her last single ‘Way Back When’ featuring Eyeconic and Chris Davison. Urban falsetto hook starts things off before Leddie and Eyeconic take turns to reminisce of days gone by before life got in the way over strummed acoustic. There two vocals work really well …
TRACK: Bronx Slang – ‘Copy That’: crisp breakz come with a warning
FRESH from the Bronx Kill Mixtape of a few weeks back, and absolutely, wholly not content to leave matters there, Bronx Slang are leaving us another hard-hitting breakz bomb to splash your face with the cold water of lyrical reality. It’s a grandstanding track built from big guitar fuzz, courtesy UK producer Fake Blood; a …
TRACK: The Damn Straights – ‘The World’s On Fire (Let It Burn)’: new collab drops a fiery banger
THE DAMN STRAIGHTS is a transatlantic collaboration between Exeter’s Adam Gibbons, aka the connoisseur’s modern soul connoisseur, Lack of Afro, and Maryland rhymer Herbal T, who’d actually shared musical admiration and had decided to hook up and make some bangers quite a while ago. Adam, of whom one tweeter replying to a single drop we …
TRACK: Andy Cooper – ‘Heart’: grandstanding old-skool science
FORMER rhymes scientists in Californ-I-A’s favourite old-skool hip-hop trio Ugly Duckling, Andy Cooper has teamed back up with his former decks buddy Young Einstein for his latest single drop, “Heart”. Take a listen to some real breakz ‘n’ rhymez science below. “Heart” brings grandstanding brass, helium samples, and a big freak-off boom of a bass …
SEE: The Twilite Tone – ‘Do It Properly’: dancing through the Windy City with future breaks
CHICAGO’S enlightened future breaks producer The Twilite Tone has just unveiled the video for “Do It Properly”, one of the standout tracks from his diaristic debut album for Stones Throw, The Clearing. Delight in it below. The video is something of a paean to Chicago and the life Tone lives; you can see him popping …
TRACK: Bronx Slang tease for next year’s album with a new mixtape
OLLIE MIGGS and Jerry Beeks, the B-boy lyrical scientists better known to us as Bronx Slang, are teasing for a new album in ’21 with 19 minutes of hard-hitting, conscious mixtape for Fabyl – which is out now. They’re reporting back from the frontlines in NYC as America slides deeper into pandemic and division. “You …
ALBUM REVIEW: Andy Cooper – ‘L.I.S.T.E.N.’: Ugly Duckling lyrical scientist in flight
Possibly best enjoyed on tape on a decent ghetto blaster wearing elegant shades, let the old-skool embrace you
EP Review: Leddie MC – Born Of Stone
Leddie is no stranger to the hip-hop game, and has been a constant shining light with her intelligent and relatable lyrics and an almost hypnotic delivery. This year however, Leddie MC has been on somewhat of a rebirth with her creativity. A new found focus and belief in her talent and musical abilities has seen …
ALBUM REVIEW: The Twilite Tone – ‘The Clearing’: crisp future electro breaks
If you were ever seduced by Mo’Wax when it was truly great, this is totally the album for you. Casting references towards multifarious Black musics, all laced up with deep thought and intelligence, it has breaks that get deep under your skin. Irresistible.