hip hop
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Beyoncé Knowles’ latest album is easily her most sexual and personal.
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Mick Jenkins rides a chiming instrumental on new single “Leonidas,” the third glimpse we’ve been given of his latest full-length effort The Water[s], due out in February. With this new track, as well as that macabre music video for “Martyrs” covered last week, this is a project to
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In “Mr. Wonderful,” previously mentioned electronic music producer Saint Pepsi combines a snappy trap beat with some schmaltzy synth leads. There’s a tight vocal sample that gives way to a fun, little drop in the song’s middle as well. Really melodic, smile-inducing production here!
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Back in October, the New Haven hip hop group Political Animals dropped this rad music video for the single “Man the Mic.” The track’s beefy bass groove, booming acoustic drums, and deft turntablism will make you want to bust a move along with the video’s breakdancers. And while
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Damn, this is one macabre video. Nooses, snippets of an interview with a convicted murderer, and lines like “I could see the cherry stems in the fucking street” pervade this latest offering from Chicago MC Mick Jenkins. His decision to sample Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” is certainly justified. Watch
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Here are two tracks that have recently been dropped by LuckyMe Records on YouTube. They were dropping one song a day up ’til Christmas for a li’l while this past December, and Hudson Mohawke & Lunce were among the many producers featured–I think the Lunice track has been
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With rap cliques being all the rage these days, Hellfyre Club comes together with a new compilation of clever, eccentric hip hop tracks that proves they can’t go uncounted.
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West Coast hip hop vet Del The Funky Homosapien–uh, a.k.a. Zartan Drednaught COBRA–recently dropped a new album on SoundCloud that’s about thirty minutes in length, and features some pretty progressive instrumentals. The overall presentation of the beats and rhymes here is a little more abstract
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NOT O.K. by KOOL A.D. Ex-Das Racist MC Kool A.D. drops his umpteenth project with Not O.K., which I’m finding a bit more enjoyable than his other recent releases. His delivery is still pretty absurd and laid back, but this project is sounding a bit
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Organized Konfusion MC Prince Po and West Coast producer Oh No have teamed up for the collaborative album Animal Serum, due out February 4 via Brooklyn’s Nature Sounds label. Check out the dirty cut “Bearz” above, featuring some hardhitting bars from Roc C. Check it!
