rap/hip-hop
Album Review: Loyle Carner – Not Waving, But Drowning
We saw with London rapper Benjamin Coyle-Larner, aka Loyle Carner’s first album Yesterday’s Gone that he was something different. Rejecting, or at least choosing to ignore the usual spoutings of bravado and boasting expected in a rappers armoury. Instead introduced us to his heart, firmly on his sleeve, his mother reading out poems extolling the …
See: Wu-Tang release video for Lesson Learn’d feat. Inspectah Deck and Redman
Taken from their acclaimed album Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues, which dropped last year on RZA and Mustafa Shaikh’s 36 Chambers ALC, Wu-Tang have released a video for the track Lesson Leanrn’d. It’s a hazy italio-soundtrack beat over which Redman brings his formidable a-game, laying down top notch rhymes with wit and insight, as the these …
Track: Sweyn Jupiter – ‘Not One Of Us’ ft. DJ NA & J Black
Taken from his debut EP Sweyn Flu, which is coming out via the brilliant Night Slugs label, Sweyn Jupiter has revealed a new track – Not one of us. Swathed in wind pipes and bass, giving it this almost oriental feel, it features enigmatic rapper J Black, and has been co-produced by DJ NA of …