Category: Reviews
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Genesis Elijah – I Ain't Even Charging Bruv | EP Review
Not many emcees can pull off the ferocious, aggro-infused flow with conviction like the UK’s Genesis Elijah can. For years his pain and frustration entangled barks have kept many necks cranking furiously in time to his often soulful beats and in 2011, the Brixton poet offers up some free nourishment for the roads.
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Jadakiss – I Love You (Dedication To The Fans) | Mixtape Review
On the weekend in which the Hip Hop world celebrated the late Notorious B.I.G’s birthday, it was only fitting that one of the few emcees to ever make a song with Frank White would drop something new for the masses. Jadakiss, the man cited as being “Top Five Dead Or Alive,” has remained the people’s…
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Maybach Music Group presents Self Made Vol. 1 | Album Review
With Rick Ross sealing his position as ‘Bawse’ in 2010, it was abundantly clear that the next power move for him was to acquire some extra musical muscle to hold onto his place. Step to the stage the Maybach Music Group, a venture made up of proven lyricists, hungry Freshmen and a sultry vocalist, in…
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Wiz Khalifa @ HMV Forum, London (May 18) | Gig Review
Every year we have at least one rapper to emerge whose wit, talent, charm and drive steals the limelight and shoots an underground favorite to mainstream superstardom almost immediately. In 2009, we saw Drake woo the panties off the ladies, 2010 was J. Cole’s turn to ‘Hit It In The Morning’ – and now for…
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Thor | Film Review
For Hollywood this officially is the year of the comic book. And with Spiderman 3 and The Dark Knight ranking as some of the biggest (and fastest) grossers in recent years, who can blame the studios involved for investing in the lives of bedraggled mutants, transforming immigrant robots from outer space and a general mesh…
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Tyler, the Creator – Goblin | Album Review
Hip Hop and controversy often go hand in hand. When misogyny, gang violence and homophobia are brought up in any discussion, the music form is often not too far off. But in 2011 a (somewhat) new moral panic in Hip Hop has arisen in the form of West Coast group Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill…
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AKS: The Bus Stop EP Launch Party, London (April 10) | Review x Pics
The bus pulled into Queen Of Hoxton on the evening of Sunday, April 10 to celebrate the launch of rapper AKS‘ debut EP, The Bus Stop courtesy of Less is More Music in association with Sistova. An intimate, but sizeable crowd of family, friends, fans and artists (including Young Guru, the sound man behind some…
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Misidentity @LostTheatre, London | Theatre Review
The Stasti Theatre company present their ever pertinent new production Misidentity at the Lost Theatre in Vauxhall, South London; a play seeking to challenge the pervasively negative perceptions of teenagers, in particular those from less than ideal social backgrounds. ‘Behind every stereotype’ reads the tagline ‘is a person. Behind every person, is a story’. True,…
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Misidentity @LostTheatre, London | Theatre Review
The Stasti Theatre company present their ever pertinent new production Misidentity at the Lost Theatre in Vauxhall, South London; a play seeking to challenge the pervasively negative perceptions of teenagers, in particular those from less than ideal social backgrounds. ‘Behind every stereotype’ reads the tagline ‘is a person. Behind every person, is a story’. True,…
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Chipmunk – Transition | Album Review
‘Transition: The process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another.’ For some, however, its definition ‘in music terms’ may be seen as the pursuit of success, put ahead of keeping one’s musical integrity. Whatever meaning one chooses to believe, it’s without question a term which defines the current position of…