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Cardi B’s journey is an unconventional example of the “American Dream”.  From rags to riches, stripper poles to stadiums, Cardi has achieved her own American dream and made money moves in the process. Cardi’s rapid rise from an Instagram personality, to reality television star to a worldwide rapper could not be foreseen and has still been…

House of Pharaohs offers us the fix we didn’t know we needed. The 5-track EP is evidence of growth from their Soundcloud days and a glimpse of their rising potential.  The phrase “up next” has been used to describe a slew of artists who seem to fall massively short of their expectation and hype. House…

Sneakbo’s debut album is an ode to a place he feels he is greatly indebted to, a place which he feels has moulded his very being – that place is Brixton. Brixton is an introspective body of work in which Sneakbo uses 19 dynamic tracks to lament, reminisce and critically analyse the journey he has…

YO PIERRE YOU WANT TO COME OUT HERE?! *MILLY ROCKS* A Playboi Carti concert is not for the fainthearted; it requires much physical strength, stamina and endurance. Someone even threw up and had to be escorted out of the crowd – it’s that level of intensity. Nobody informed me how much pain I’d be in the…

T’Challa and Kendrick Lamar, two Kings assigned with similar tasks.  In the movie, T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) is tasked with having to bring Wakanda out of the shadows and onto the global stage, and on the album,  Kendrick is tasked with having to musically bring Black Panther to life. Kendrick uses 50-minutes and 14 sprawling tracks to present his own interpretation of…

2017 was undoubtedly the year of Migos. It was Childish Gambino’s speech at the Golden Globes which propelled Bad n Boujee into the mainstream realm. Whether it was their appearance on Calvin Hariss’ Funk Wave Bounce Volume 1, Quavo doing verses for Katy Perry and Post Malone or the romance between Offset and Cardi B –…

  Why do I wish I’d discovered Rapsody’s album earlier? Because it is brilliant! The album opens with Aretha Franklin singing “To be young, gifted and black”; these words encompassing everything that Rapsody is and what she shows on this album. The use of Aretha’s sample, the church-inspired chords infused with a heavy but bop-like drum line,…

Flower Boy – Tyler The Creator  “Tell these black kids they could be who they are” Have you ever listened to an album and loved every track? That was Flower Boy for me. My first thought after having properly digested Flower Boy was how much Tyler had matured. There was a sense of growth not only in…