Not since the peak era in rock n’ roll history has a genre been as polarizing and culture-shaping as hip-hop is, and with his new single and music video “Papa,” Ricci Bamboo is looking to put his own stamp on the style through a series of poetic emissions few in his scene can stand up […]
The beat is often a central point of connection in a hip-hop track, and while it has quite an important part to play in the new single “V Roy” by Pesh Milli, it’s not the lone focus that this artist has to share with us in his latest release. If anything, I would say that […]
If you’re like me, you’ve been feeling like hip-hop is getting a little absorbed in gloom and doom lately – and for all the wrong reasons. Don’t misunderstand me; there’s as much of a place for emo rap as there is anything on the leaner and meaner end of the genre’s artistic profile, but when […]
Unlike a lot of players in the hip-hop game, melodies are of integral importance to Mighty Koba and Jaey London, and their new collaborative single “2 Many” reflects this without fail. Instead of making slick verses the key focal point in this song, the harmonies drive the hook and even the rhythm of the words […]
Forget the minimalism that a lot of rappers have been wearing like a brand new fur coat lately – Star2 wants to use excess as his secret weapon, and with $tupid Young in the new single “Big Bands,” he’s restoring some long-missing hedonism to a genre that was built on as much some forty-plus years […]
Finding a center from which to operate is essential in any hip-hop collaboration, and it clearly was not a problem for Hitpapa and Emtee when they got together to make their new single “I’ll Be There” recently. “I’ll Be There” doesn’t waste our time finding its groove; by the time we get into the second […]
When trap and lo-fi influences come together, a lot of amazing things can happen, but when you add in a vicious delivery like that of Veve C in her new single “Breeze,” we wind up with a sound just too charismatic to be dismissed. There’s more than a lot of quality hip-hop in the North […]
In Dici’s music, there’s no denying that going deeper than the status quo in hip-hop calls for comes standard. There’s always something just a little more brooding about his narratives, something a touch more personal than we’re expecting, but if you think this means he can’t cut loose once in a while, his new single […]
