hip hop

Live in the UK and a fan of Tyler The Creator? You will not be seeing him for at least five years. Tyler cancelled four shows in the UK and Ireland on August the 26th including performances at this past weekend’s Leeds and Reading festivals. In a statement released...

Hip-hop is one of the most popular genres in music right now; the likes of Drake and Kanye West are some of the world’s most prominent celebrities, topping the charts and influencing material in genres a far reaching and jazz and indie rock. Not bad for the music of...

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...

Its 2015, and hip-hop is having something of a personality crisis. Rappers like Czarface and Kendrick Lamar are dropping classics made from the vintage hip-hop facets of lyricism and hard, soulful beats. Rappers like Drake, Young Thug and Future meanwhile are making it big despite having neither of these...

Lil Wayne’s latest project, released exclusively on TIDAL, was designed to placate Weezy fans in the prolonged absence of the fifth instalment of his series, Tha Carter V. The question is though, has the whole kerfuffle regarding his Cash Money lawsuits affected Weezy’s artistry for the worse? In no...

Vince Staples came from nowhere; or, as is often the case with those to whom that by-line is applied, he seemed to come from nowhere. But as was the case with Californian fellow Kendrick Lamar, he’s just finally getting his due attention. Vince is an impressive voice for the...

In a performance that was divisive to say the least, Kanye West’s Glastonbury headliner featured as many controversial moments as one might expect from the man who twice stormed the Grammy stage and got called a ‘jackass’ by the President of the United States. But we might finally have...