Kendrick Lamar

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...

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...

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...

The fifth full-length release from the Los Angeles producer Flying Lotus, You’re Dead!, starts off incredibly hectic. Opening track, ’Theme’, sounds like a great orchestra warming up and tuning their instruments, preparing for the fast paced, scatty tempo that is to come. As with much of Flying Lotus’s work, it’s...