hip-hop/rap tracks
Track: Bishop Nehru – Emporer
Bishop Nehru, one of the most talented MC’s around, is back with a new self-written and produced album ‘Nehruvia: My Disregarded Thoughts’, out on May 8th and available for pre-order here. Of the track, he says “EMPEROR was just a track that I was making specifically to have fun at lives shows,” adding: “I wanted to be able …
Track: Run the Jewels – Ooh La La
Following on from the recent single ‘Yankee the brave (EP. 4), stellar hip-hop duo Run the Jewels have followed up the recent ‘Yankee and the Brave (EP. 4) with another single taken from their forthcoming RTJ4 album, Ooh La La. Featuring Greg Nice and DJ Premier, the track is built on a straightforward beat, over …
See: Sampa the Great releases Final Form, along with new video
Sydney based MC Sampa the Great has released her new single, Final Form, and along with she’s also produced a new accompanying video to go with the track. Produced by longtime collaborator Silentjay (Rhythm Section) – and mixed by rising Stones Throw rhymer Jonwayne, Final Form is this hard hitting, and funk filled, sounding like something Adrian Younge …
See: Yizzy reveals new animated video for Freeze ft. Devilman
Lewisham MC is becoming something of a grime torchbearer, talking up the scene to just about anyone of influence that will listen. More than that this ugh, he’s also becoming one of its most important protagonists as new single Freeze demonstrates, taken from his forthcoming Grime Street EP, out on June 7th via DMY Of …
Track: ASM – Grape ft Cutty Ranks
ASM (A State of Mind) is a European rap trio based principally of MC’s Green and FP, joined by DJ/Producer Fade. Three albums in and net sales of well into six figures have led to the band seemingly doing as they please, and in this case it’s putting out their new single on 7″ vinyl …
Track: Rebel ACA & French Monkey Wrench – John Wayne
After meeting 15 years ago, as one managed and the other produced a funk reggae band, Rebel ACA (the ACA being Anti-Clockwise Attitude) and French Monkey Wrench (him being a) french and b) an inspired fixer of things, sometimes with the aforementioned Wrench) have been the ying to the others yang, and they’ve finally come …
Track: Jachary – Posse Cut #1
Jachary, aka singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Zachary Levine-Caleb, has released his new track ‘Posse Cut #1’, so called because of the collaborative and loose nature of it, which saw no less than 13 guest artists including rappers, vocalists and horn players jump on the trackdown at lovelove studios where it was recorded. As with Jachary’s …
Track: Balkan Bump – Aymo feat. Talib Kweli
Essentially the project of trumpet player, producer and ethnomusicologist Will Magid, Balkan Bump has already made waves, pulling in superstar collaborators such as Gramatik and Talib Kweli, and fusing them with his Balkan brass an beats. He wrote the track after meeting Talib Kweli when they were playing alongside Pretty Lights on The Conan O’Brien …
Track: Uppermost – Slide ft. Yudimah
Lifted from his upcoming album, Perseverance, Slide ft. Yudimah is the latest single from Paris based, producer Behdad Nejatbakhshe aka Uppermost. His recent singles ‘Make A Change’ and ‘Step By Step ft. Sôra’ have seen his stock rise, and he’s turned heads in many of the more influential magazines and blogs. This latest effort features …
Track: Young Fathers – In my view
Following last Novembers news that Young Fathers had completed work on their new album, the trio – Alloysious Massaquoi, Graham ‘G’ Hastings and Kayus Bankole have followed up the first glimpse of the new record, Lord, with a new track In my view. They’ve also revealed more details of the album. Titled Cocoa Sugar, the …