hip hop

After her initial release of highly successful single ‘Bodak Yellow’ which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks in a row, Cardi B continues to please her fans with her debut album Invasion of Privacy. Her last mixtape Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 2 highlighted Cardi’s aggressive nature and authority, however, with the...

Every time I have mentioned that I enjoy Kodak Black’s music to my friends, the response is generally unanimous laughter. It seems that a vast number (perhaps the majority) of hip-hop fans see Kodak Black as an uninspired, gimmick rapper. I find this reaction jarring. It is through investigating...

“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...

The hip-hop musical about an American politician has gained international recognition and it’s notoriously impossible to get a Broadway seat. Fans across the UK scrambled for tickets when the West End production, opening later this year, was announced – but if you’re left wondering what’s so special about it,...

The Ville is back, the real is back. With his hair grown-out and his lyricism sharp as ever, Jermaine embarks on his most conceptual project yet. Back in 2014, on the run-up to 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole popped by The Letterman Show, and during a performance of...

Not sure if you want to take the plunge into the dizzying world of the University’s 200+ societies? Don’t know your Blowsoc from your Bladesoc? The Socumentaries team endeavours to sample as many societies as possible so you don’t have to. Nottingham nightlife caters perfectly to my music tastes....

Eighteen years have gone since the release of A Tribe Called Quest’s last album The Love Movement, with trends within hip-hop and mainstream rap changing countlessly in this time. But as the legendary Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Jarobi White and Ali Shaheed Muhammad return for their final album, they prove...