Tag: Rapping
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What happened to hip hop?
AMEN! Darryl DMC is correct about hip-hop, it’s bigger than ever but dumber than ever, and the responsibility isn’t there…at all. It’s about money and greed and not your voice. And it does feel like the end of something, that it’s going to crash…or that new voices will come up. So little is being said…
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Mash Malone
I was surprised there haven’t been more Post Malone mashups or albums, especially as he seems very much the man of the moment with a new album about to drop – and then a whole album comes along from the other man of the moment American mashup artist Grave Danger and NZ posse Felix Five…
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RC 282: Ladies First
This is a response to the frankly whack Guardian listicle about the greatest female rappers that James (hi!) sent to me and Kirk. 4/10 – that’s not only my ‘see me after class’ score, it’s also the paltry amount I agree with. Ladies first, well last in this case. It reads like some bored intern…
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Independent Venue Week at the Windmill
Last night I was at the Windmill in Brixton to see Sorry, Ghost Kings of the Five Regions and Drug Store Romeos as part of Independent Venue Week. Independent Music Week is in it’s fifth year with I think over a hundred venues taking part. I’d never been to the Windmill in Brixton (take a…
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African Disco Electro
We’re no stranger to African electronica, Afrobeat highlife, and African funk on this blog – previously mixed, remixed, played or blogged about William Onyeahbor (RIP), Victor Uwaifo, Benis Cletin, Supermax, Fela and Femi Kuti, Lijadu Sisters and many more. So it’s not a surprise that I’ve been listening to a lot of Nigerian and South…
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GoldLink & Louie Lastic
Following on from Kaytranada, I was on the trail of rap that was cloudy, chilled and intelligent and stumbled across GoldLink and the productions of Louie Lastic (in fact GoldLink and Kaytra have worked and toured together). This track, Spectrum sampling Missy (she seems to have become a 90’s touchstone to this scene, along with…