Tag: Hip Hop
Exeposé Music’s Top Albums of 2018: 10-1
10 Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino by Arctic Monkeys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Es-8FfATo
After the roaring success of 2013’s sexy but sanitised AM, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino sees the Sheffield rockers...
Enter the Wu Tang Clan (36 Chambers): 25 years on
As America rolled into 1993, East Coast hip-hop was coughing and spluttering like a flu patient. Dr Dre’s G-Funk had led a takeover of...
Review: Alt-J – REDUXER
Alt-J is back, with a dreamy reimagining of their 2017 project, RELAXER, charged with hip-hop, R&B, and escapism. Lomepal, Paigey Cakey, and Rejjie Snow...
Album Review: Pusha-T- DAYTONA
Less than 24 hours after its long-awaited release, DAYTONA was already stoking a fiery reception. The closer, 'Infrared', an unusually calm diss track, prompted...
Interview: Rejjie Snow
it’s more just being responsible. And thinking about others.
A little while ago I had the amazing opportunity of interviewing Rejjie Snow about his debut...
Album Review: Black Panther
This is, notably, a proper album, with real effort and thought put into it. The production on individual songs is high-quality, and the stack...
Mental Health & the Progressive State of Mainstream Hip-Hop
Mental illness has seemingly always simmered beneath the surface of mainstream hip-hop. In the 1990s paranoia permeated throughout the lyrics of Tupac Shakur. The...
Live Review: Loyle Carner @ Exeter Phoenix
A year ago, I’d never heard of the name Loyle Carner, let alone his real name, which is (confusingly) Benjamin Coyle-Larner, despite the fact...
Album Review: Mura Masa – ‘Mura Masa’
The buzz surrounding electro-pop producer Mura Masa, 21 year-old Guernsey-born Alex Crossan, has been intensifying for years now. From instrumental ‘Lotus Eater’ being picked...
Live Review: Frank Ocean @ Parklife 2017
At 10:00pm on Sunday evening, the final night of Manchester’s Parklife festival, the enormous mass of people gathered outside the main stage was getting...
