Tyler, The Creator joins the Navy in the latest visual to come from last year’s ‘FLOWER BOY‘. The nautical video features cameos from Kali Uchis and A$AP Rocky, as well as an unexpectedly creepy ending. Stream below via YouTube.
EKA Beats releases his first album since 2016; ‘Coordinates’. The South London producer grew up playing the trumpet before switching to synths and drum machines to create an exciting blend of Alt Hip Hop & Trap that borrows as much from Chicago’s Drill sound as it does the LA beat scene. Vocal features from the…
On ‘Bruce Banner’, Mick Jenkins is at the most enraged we’ve seen him in a while. Named after the timid host of the Incredible Hulk, the track sees him open with “Honestly can’t nobody come for me ‘cept Kendrick / And I hope you offended, like it’s untrue / Don’t make me debunk your kung-fu / Fuck up the…
Alcatrz first burst on to our radar with the infectious ‘Sexy‘, a Hip Hop track with an undeniable swagger. Switching things up on new track ‘Taking U Back’, he hands the vocal reigns over to Nin-ja, who has had just about enough of a devious ex-lover. It’s an upbeat mixture of Pop and R&B that’s…
Mac Miller releases a fifth studio album in ‘Swimming’, his first since – and in many ways a counterpoint to – 2016’s ‘The Divine Feminine’. Mac’s public break-up with singer Ariana Grande is evidently a source of inspiration, but happily it’s self-love, healing, and psychological growth Mac dwells on, rather than wallowing in self-pity. “Tell them they…
“Music has been my soul’s therapy for quite some time now,” says Kojey Radical of his new double A-side. “Although ’97’ is about the loss of a close friend I want the song to feel like a celebration; something we can both smoke to in heaven. ‘Pure’ is a conversation I would have with myself…
In what must surely be one of the most exciting collabs of the summer, Tyler The Creator & A$AP Rocky join forces on new track ‘Potato Salad’, which hints at a forthcoming project entitled WANG$AP. The track is as loose, funny, and relaxed as the video, with the Odd Future and A$AP Mob head honchos…
Although its not quite the album fans have been waiting for, Chance The Rapper drops four new songs in the form of new EP, ‘4 New Songs’. Each track comes with its own artwork, that of track two ‘I Might Need Security’ being a stylised version of anger meme ‘Arthur’s Fist’, with the hook and…
After the critical acclaim with which the first Everything Is Recorded project was met, XL Recordings boss Richard Russell announces that there’ll be a follow-up EP alongside new single ‘Carry Me’” featuring Nigerian vocalist Obongjayar and British Bahraini trumpet and flugelhorn player Yazz Ahmed. The forthcoming project will be entitled ‘8AM’ and is set to feature 6-tracks,…
Alongside the news of two headline shows in Manchester and London, comes a new double A-side from 808INK. This time the South London duo enlist the help of House Of Pharaohs’ Sam Wise. Stream ‘I Feel The Love / Sol’ via SoundCloud.
British producer JMZ is back with a new single, ‘DIVIDE’, his first since Province-released mixtape ‘Let Me Be Great‘. The places haunting piano melodies alongside the kind of looped vocal sample that’s fast becoming something of a JMZ motif, accompanied by crisp snares and heavy hi-hats. Stream below via Spotify.
It’s fair to say that South Central Los Angeles has a pretty rich music heritage. Areas like Inglewood, Compton and Hawthorn have spawned a generation of artists like Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Eazy E that have refused to conform to industry clichés, and their combined discography is a sound that’s not only borne of…
