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From guest vocalist on Chase & Status ‘All Goes Wrong’ to the voice of Sky Sports’ Premier League coverage and Fifa 2018 with ‘Found What I’ve Been Looking For’, London singer-songwriter Tom Grennan takes the limelight, headlining Gloucester’s Barn on the Farm Festival and releasing his debut album Lighting...
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“I like lean, I like drugs”. These are the opening lyrics to ‘Slingshot’, a song which served as my introduction to the upcoming underground rapper, Lil Xan. Given these lyrics (lean referring to a syrup-based recreational drug), along with his name itself (an abbreviation for the drug Xanax), I...
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The decade long sequel to The Game’s breakthrough 2003 album The Documentary has been well appreciated by many critics but is it all it’s cracked up to be? Is it on the same level as his previous works such as the original Documentary album or even the 2012 tape...
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Biopics are the most awkward of genres. We all live our own lives and we know from them that unlike movies they aren’t neat; the overarching themes don’t become obvious until years after the fact and things happen by chance and luck that in a movie would be nothing...
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16 Years?! 16 Years Dre?! What have you been doing?! Oh yeah: becoming the richest black musician in the world, mentoring the world’s most famous rapper Eminem, the world’s best Kendrick Lamar, and the world’s most broke; 50 Cent – jumping on the Apple Music rocket ship before it...
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“Our art is a reflection of our reality.” – Ice Cube (Jackson Sr.) N.W.A. rose to prominence as a bookend to the eclectic 80’s in Los Angeles – and to say that is an understatement. The rap group’s meteoric influence in the early 90’s was truly more than a...