Hip-Hop
Hip-Hop
MP3: Tape Sounds – “Cosmosis”
The spaced-out work of Tape Sounds, AKA Massachusetts-based Nate Kellogg, presents experimental electro-psychedelia with steady synth-pad backdrops and alternating leads, the latter often projected through fastidious guitars or...
Hip-Hop
MP3: OWK – “Shine”
Raleigh-based producer CGMUZIK handles the beats for OWK (James), an aspiring rapper from South Philly. The latter's location renders the samples on OWK's debut EP, SPTMBR, appropriate. Extracted from gems of Philly soul, the b...
Hip-Hop
MP3: Profecy – “Walk With Me”
American hip-hop producer DJ Corbett, who has worked with the likes of Saigon and Bun B, joined Profecy in the studio for this entertaining new effort. Profecy has been steadily making a name in the Australian hip-hop scene for...
Hip-Hop
MP3s: endoflevelbaddie
endoflevelbaddie make game changin’, genre-crossing electronic music with elements of 8-bit electronica and credible hip-hop packed tightly within. This is interesting stuff that takes Kingston-Upon-Hull’s sound out...
Hip-Hop
Danny Brown Talks Virtual Collaboration w/ The Avalanches
It has been 12 years since The Avalanches released their classic 2000 debut Since I Left You. For any other group such a wait would be hard to justify, but it’s well suited to Avalanches’ intricate style of music. S...
Hip-Hop
Tyler, the Creator Details New LP, ‘Wolf’
Apart from the ongoing spat with Tegan and Sara, Odd Future’s Tyler, the Creator has been relatively quiet on the news front as of late. His second solo full-length, Goblin (review), dropped earlier this May. It was gener...
Features
J. Nolan
A rising hip-hop artist like J. Nolan has a notable amount of temptations in the studio alone. There are countless numbers of production gimmicks aimed to disguise an artist’s insecurities, inspired by an age where cameos and p...
Features
Thoughts on Outkast’s Idlewild
Many hardcore rap fans would say that 2006 has been a horrible year for Hip-Hop. In terms of classic, cohesive Hip-Hop albums, fans have gotten so desperate as to call any Rap album that drops a “classicâ€. Despite all of th...
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Outkast… Still Catchy and Contagious
Sure, I’m not particulary a fan of rap, but some acts are just so catchy and unpredictable, I can’t resist. Well, that may not even apply to Outkast, as many of their songs are far from rap. We’ve seen every g...
