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May 11, 20218 min read

‘It’s not the heat, it’s the dust’

Following the success of Armand Hammer's new project Fahad Al-Amoudi revisits one of billy woods' most iconic albums... Hiding Places...

Nov 7, 20206 min read

The Producer's Ear

In Hip Hop, alchemy is everywhere and the art of sampling is no different. Sampling creates so many lively debates around interpolation,...

Oct 11, 20203 min read

Hey Guys, I'm Blond(e)

We sat down with one of Keylime's founding members, Karishma Sangtani, to discuss her tattoos, review process and her new...

Aug 5, 20205 min read

Some Rap Songs and Many Many More

In 2018, Thebe Neruda Kgositsile (a.k.a Earl Sweatshirt) released his highly anticipated third studio album coming three years after I...

May 15, 20205 min read

feat. Kendrick Lamar

So much has been written about the career of Kendrick Lamar that it is very hard to add something new to the conversation. From his...

May 1, 20204 min read

'The Return' - Understanding Sampa the Great

A child running through parched grass, overgrown, but not rough; a shaky frame, disorienting, almost pivoting off the girls movements;...

Jan 19, 20201 min read

Fortnightly Roundup

Rappers do a lot of stoopid shit, and it's easy to lose track of what's going in on the hip-hop world. So here's a little roundup of...

Jan 9, 20206 min read

Our Personal Albums of the Decade

We each took turns choosing our top 10 RnB/Hip-Hop albums of the decade, and it wasn't easy. We couldn't agree, so we've decided to each...

Dec 24, 20193 min read

High and Low: Murakami and Cultural Cross-Sections

“I don’t think of it as straddling. I think of it as changing the line. What I’ve been talking about for years is how in Japan, that line...