Photo Credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com Many rappers explore the bounds of what can be considered Hip Hop, especially today. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that on its face but many people who “analyze” music take that exploration and claim that said artist has evolved past rap and become some type of true artist.…… read more »
Courtesy of Griselda Records When your home needs you, where will you be? When everything you hold dear starts to move towards disarray what can you do? These thoughts seems to have been weighing on the mind of Griselda Record’s newest star Mach Hommy, when he began crafting his incomparable 2021 album “Pray For Haiti”.…… read more »
Photo Credit: Ben Houdijk / Shutterstock.com Who are you in your head? It’s a harder question to answer then you might expect or may be willing to admit. For the London born MC, Little Simz it’s a question that seems to have permeated the majority of her 2021 masterwork of an album “Sometimes I Might…… read more »
Photo Editorial Credit: Warner Records The last time Isaiah Rashad dropped an album in the late summer of 2016, the world was a much different place. With his latest project “The House is Burning” Chattanooga’s finest has proved that he hasn’t missed a single step and might understand this new world better than all of…… read more »
Photo Credit: Sam Aronov / Shutterstock.com It’s been 30 years since the iconic verse from a then 17 year old named Nas, on the legendary track “Live at the Barbeque”. In those years since Nas has created one of the most varied and impressive bodies of work in all of music. His first release “Illmatic”…… read more »
Photo Credit: Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com There has been a lot of conversation in the past few years about the “death of R&B”, stemming a from a perceived lack of great albums/artist in the genre or a muddling of the actual meaning of R&B. And if R&B is in-fact on it’s last leg, no…… read more »
Photo Credit: Randy Miramontez / Shutterstock.com Most of the time when a project is named after a previous one, you don’t often see a connection between the two and it is mainly due to laziness or a marketing ploy to capitalize off a success project. This is not the case with “Folarin 2”, it’s to…… read more »
Photo Credit: Michael Tubi / Shutterstock.com Before you say it, yes, I know the original version of this album came out last year here’s the thing, I do not care. I wouldn’t care if this album was released 5 years ago, pretending that this album wasn’t one of the top projects of this year would be…… read more »
Photo Credit: Columbia Records Despite all of the twists we’ve experienced in 2021 one thing has seemed to be consistent the entire year, Polo G is going to make really good music and a lot of people are going to listen to it. Since the 2019 release of his first true hit “Pop Out” you’d…… read more »
Photo Credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com There aren’t many voices that have been missed in R&B over the past half decade the way Jazmine Sullivan’s has been. Legitimately one of the most powerful songstresses of her generation, it has been quiet album-wise since the 2015 release of “Reality Show”, but here 2021 we receive the bold…… read more »