hip-hop/rap tracks
Track: DijahSB shares new single ‘By Myself’ ahead of new album
Toronto-based rapper DijahSB just gifted us with ‘By Myself’, sporting a down-tempo classic boom bap beat with a funky bassline to suit. The tune has a sprinkle of the contemporary, with a distinct guitar riff towards the final verse and chorus, present in a portion of Odd Future’s records, early last decade. The production on …
Track: Young Thug releases ‘That Go!’ feat. Meek Mill and T-Shyne, ahead of forthcoming album Slime Language 2
In keeping with Young Thug’s status as one of the most truly binary artists of the 21st century- it either clicks or it doesn’t- this is an opinion written as quickly as possible. Don’t want to let it sit. The fuzzy orchestral in the background of latest single ‘That Go!’ gives Meek Mill’s characteristically gritty vocals …
Track: Jovian releases new single, Where’d U Go
It may be a rare disorder, but many artists across the globe are ‘synesthetes’, including Brooklyn based artist Jovian. An artist that merges sounds using all senses, Jovian is a unique musician. Released November 13th, the latest adventure from the hip-hop and R&B songwriter is the brooding number ‘Where’d U Go’. A visionary to say …
See: Public Enemy announce new album, and release Fight The Power 2020 Remix
Iconic hip-hop crew Public Enemy are back, returning to the label that helped to make them – Def Jam, with a new studio album ‘What you gonna do when the grid goes down’, out on September 25th. Ahead of that they’ve released a new remix of their classic ‘Fight The Power’. It opened the 2020 …
Track: Thundercat reveals new remix of ‘Dragonball Durag’ feat. Smino and Guapdad 4000
In the wake of his monumental ‘It is what it is’, which we roundly adored upon its release in the spring, Thundercat has returned with a new remix of one of the records standout tracks – Dragonball Durag, featuring friends Smino and Guapdad 4000. Rapper and vocalist Smino co-founded the lauded Zero Failure collective alongside …
See: DJ Shub releases new video for ‘The Social’
New video from DJ Shub, member of A Tribe Called Red, who collaborates with Phoenix on potent new single, The Social. This new video is appearing on Shub Music imprint; and comes at a timely point in both Shub and Phoenix’s career both professionally and personally. Hailing from Canada, Phoenix has become an integral part …
See: The Go! Team return with new video for Cookie Scene
if you like your gluey indie funk I with a dose of day-glo, then you’ll no doubt already be a fan of Brighton’s Go! Team, so like us you’ll be delighted the band are back with a new single ‘Cookie Scene’, out on September 11th via Memphis Industries, available on yellow vinyl (pre-orderfrom their store HERE), …
Track: London rapper Vinch releases the brilliant ‘Black’
Out now via Water Sound Recordings is ‘Black’, the new single from London rapper / producer Vinch. Written following the London protests in support of Black Lives Matter a few weeks ago, he arrived home and started formulating his thoughts. He expresses those thoughts, that essentially black lives do matter, with such eloquence, skill and …
Droppin’ Knowledge: HANiF. The Barber & Tope Drop New Single LLC – Watch
Portland, Oregon rapper HANiF. The Barber and Tope share a new single from their new EP, No Clout. The song, “LLC,” was co-produced by HANiF. and Anthony Danza. In the video, the two emcess philosophize about life in front of, and inside of, the barber shop owned by HANiF., in downtown Vancouver, Washington. HANiF., who …
Track: Maverick Sabre- Don’t you know by now
Taken from from his upcoming EP, out this Summer via Famm Records is the new track from Singer-Songwriter Maverick Sabre, called Don’t you know me by now. Of the track Maverick says its is “…A song about the ending of a relationship, knowing it’s over but ending it completely being easier said than done. What …