Skinny Malone recently dropped ‘Jiggy Ninja Skinny,’ the first taste of an upcoming EP. A couple of weeks later he’s back with a video for the statement track courtesy of Director Faceless Villain, which sees the Hackney MC move from vignette to vignette at a pace that matches the cut’s breakneck pace. Stream below via…
Ahead of their hotly anticipated, second collaborative album ‘Bandana’ [June 28], Freddie Gibbs & Madlibe release ‘Crime Pays.’ The track comes along with a Nick Walker-directed visual inspired by 1970s Blaxploitation Westerns, which sees Freddie Gibbs running things on a remote zebra farm. Yes, you read that correctly; Gangsta Gibbs switches bricks for livestock, and…
There was a time [2014, to be precise] when it felt like the most fresh and exciting Hip Hop music was coming out of New York again. The Odd Future bubble had begun to burst, and three New York collectives were beginning to put out their respectively different takes on a classic sound; Flatbush Zombies,…
Phoenix, Arizona trio unleash their self-titled debut album; a boisterous 13 track collection featuring the lines of Aminé, JPEGMAFIA, Rico Nasty, Cakes da Killa, Freddie Gibbs and DRAM, as well as the singles ‘Jailbreak The Tesla‘ and ‘Koruna & Lime‘. As hip-hop outsiders with no homegrown scene, Injury Reserve started out playing at local house…
Slowthai’s debut album ‘Nothing Great About Britain’ makes every bit as much of a statement as its title might suggest. It’s a searing treatise on what it means to be British in 2019; one that deserves to be held aloft next to the likes of ‘Original Pirate Material’, ‘Boy In Da Corner’ and ‘Never Mind…
News of Tyler, The Creator’s fifth studio album came initially via a leak from Colombia parent label Sony Music, before Tyler began to roll out a series of bizarre video vignettes on YouTube, teasing 50 odd seconds of album tracks ‘IGOR’S THEME,’NEW MAGIC WAND,’ ‘WHAT’S GOOD’ and ‘A BOY IS A GUN.’ On ‘IGOR’ it…
Having just announced new album ‘Ignorance Is Bliss’ [May 31], Skepta drops two brand new songs from the project; ‘Greaze Mode’ and ‘Bullet From A Gun.’ The former features Luton vocalist Nafe Smallz and is definitely aimed at the turn up, while ‘Bullet From A Gun’ come produced by both Skepta and Ragz Originale, and…
Those paying attention might recognise some of Slowthai’s new track ‘Nothing Great About Britain’ from a recent acapella with Crack Magazine. The single is also the title track from the Northampton MC’s upcoming debut album, which is due for release May 17, and serves as Thai’s take on the current state of the nation, building…
North London’s Elijah might be a new face on the scene, but his debut cut ‘Slither’ has an understated slap that fills us with confidence that he’s going places this year. “It’s an ode to all the fake people around me at that time,” explains Elijah. “There was a lot of snakey behaviour about, hence…
Following the release of his latest mixtape ‘Behind Closed Doors 3’, South London rapper Little Torment drops a new visual for single ‘I Like’. Speaking on the track Torment says; “It was fun getting creative and keeping it real at the same time, I always like getting on the up-tempo UK sounding beat – I…
ScHoolboy Q’s fifth studio album arrives almost three years after his ‘Blank Face’ LP, and postponed several months due to the passing of Q’s close friend and collaborator Mac Miller. “You know I drop albums every two years, right?” said Puffy during a November 2018 concert. “But listen, with my nigga gone right now, I…
Stormzy is back with his first solo single since 2017. The track’s title is inspired by a viral dance move created by a now-suspended twitter account, @NL_Vossi. Over a dark beat from producer Chris Andoh, Stormz takes shots at Boris Johnson and the British government, and also shouts out girlfriend Maya Jama – calling her…
