For her new music video, “Bad Blood”, Taylor Swift enlisted a star studded cast including Ellie Goulding, Jessica Alba, Cindy Crawford, and Cara Delevingne to name just a few. The song sees Taylor Swift finally link up with Kendrick Lamar following her excitement at his album’s early release. It feels a bit Continue Reading
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Heems – Home (featuring Blood Orange)
“Home” is the new single from former Das Racist rapper Heems, featuring Blood Orange AKA Dev Hynes. It’s a song about breakups and how hard it can be to get move on told over production that borrows from Eastern music to create a song that is both beautiful and chilled. “Home” Continue Reading
Highly Recommended: Forever Midnight – Portraits of The Heart EP
20-Year old Texas based producer F Forever Midnight’s debut EP Portraits of The Heart is pretty amazing. Released on Valentines Day, the EP has a futuristic RnB sound with tons of bass. Much of it is instrumentals but final track features Beya Likhari alongside a rapper (who may be Forever Midnight. This should Continue Reading
Kendrick Lamar – The Blacker The Berry
On new single “The Blacker The Berry”, Kendrick Lemar channels the energy and agression from Boi-1da’s 90’s Hip Hop inspired production. Sonically it’s quite a bit different from previous Grammy winning single “i”, which had more of a Soulful feel to it, but the song’s message is similar. “i” may not have Continue Reading
Ghostpoet – Off Peak Dreams
Alt rapper Ghospoet is currently gearing up to release his follow up to follow up his new album Shedding Skin, the follow up to 2013’s Some Say I So I Say Light. Unlike his previous albums, ‘the album was recorded with a traditional live set up with what has become Continue Reading
Tinie Tempah – Flash (Video)
Tinie Tempah’s starting the new year off with what looks like the first single off his third as yet untitled album. The Splurge Boys produced track builds on the sound heard on his last album Demonstration and is sure to have the club going up. No word on a release Continue Reading
Young Fathers – Soon Come Soon
“Soon Come Soon” is out now on iTunes and Google Play.
Highly Recommended: Little Simz – AGE 101- DROP 3|000 EP
There’s more than enough here to suggest that Simz has a promising future; a brilliant flow, versatility: aswell as being able to write good verses Simz can also write good songs (unlike alot of rappers) and beat selection is one of her greatest strengths. While Simz’s sound is is rooted Continue Reading
Album Review: J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive
Release Date: 9th December 2014 Genre: Hip Hop Label: Roc Nation Purchase: iTunes & Google Play Cole is a master beat smith, but his lyrics don’t equal the high standards of his production Cole took more of a melodic approach to the lyrics, while the production took more of a mid Continue Reading
Little Simz & Jakwob – Time Capsule (ft. Caitlyn Scarlett)
Following the success of “Devour”, the last collaboration between Little Simz and Jakwob, the duo decided to link up again on new track “Time Capsule”. The song is the title track for the duo’s new EP which also features “Devour” and will be released on 14th December. You can pre-order Little Continue Reading