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Hot Right Now: Barny Fletcher

Hot Right Now: Barny Fletcher

Popular hip-hop is being shaken up, and Barny Fletcher is at the forefront of it
Preview: Yasiin Bey (Mos Def)

Preview: Yasiin Bey (Mos Def)

The O2 Ritz will host renowned rapper Yasiin Bey to perform, in full, his acclaimed album ‘The Ecstatic’ writes Ashwin Tharoor
Review: Blindspotting

Review: Blindspotting

Oakland-born rapper Daveed Diggs of Hamilton fame joined forces with poet-come-rapper Rafael Casal to write and star in Blindspotting.
Live: The Warehouse Project – Sounds of the Near Future

Live: The Warehouse Project – Sounds of the Near Future

Theo Bennett reviews Sounds of the Near Future at The Warehouse Project, as their time at Store Street comes to a close
Live Review: Kojaque

Live Review: Kojaque

Kevin Smith AKA Kojaque is a self-proclaimed soft-boy who brings tales of the Irish working-class underbelly to the YES basement
Preview: Kojaque

Preview: Kojaque

Jasmine Bennett previews Kojaque’s arrival in Manchester at YES which is set to bless our ears with smooth Irish-accented hip-hop.
Hip-hop and the Pulitzer

Hip-hop and the Pulitzer

Kendrick Lamar’s win in the Pulitzer Prize music category is a watershed moment for the perception of hip-hop as an art form.
Live Review: Y.O.U.N.G

Live Review: Y.O.U.N.G

Rock mixed with reggae, pop, punk, hip-hop and a whole range of other genres, Y.O.U.N.G manages to blow the roof off of Deaf Institute
Album Review: Rejjie Snow – Dear Annie

Album Review: Rejjie Snow – Dear Annie

One of the most significant and creative hip-hop releases of the year
Interview: Nightmares on Wax

Interview: Nightmares on Wax

George Evelyn chats to Deputy Music Editor, Yasmin Duggal, about the joy music and travel has brought him over the years
Kendal Calling festival announces line-up

Kendal Calling festival announces line-up

The Libertines, Catfish and the Bottlemen, and Run DMC all set to headline
Review: BROCKHAMPTON – SATURATION III

Review: BROCKHAMPTON – SATURATION III

The all-american boyband conclude their “SATURATION” trilogy with a satisfying project

Live Review: Dave

Felix Sanders reviews Dave at the Academy and predicts big things for the artist in the future

Interview: The Moods

The Moods are finishing up their huge UK Tour, and are coming back for a massive end of tour party

Album Review: Jaden Smith – SYRE

The 19-year old tells us “the story of a boy who chased the sunset until it chased him” on his debut album

Live Review: Joey Bada$$

There’s something intrinsically hip-hop about a rapper wearing a bright orange sweatshirt, cargo pants and military boots, holding a glass of white wine whilst rapping a nursery rhyme

Album: Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.

Kendrick Lamar raises the bar and lays down the gauntlet, writes Ben Lomax

First thoughts: Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.

Ben Lomax takes a preliminary dip into the mindset and ideas of Kendrick Lamar’s latest project, which may hold the key to as yet unknown depths

Interview: J. Chambers

Madeleine Jones speaks to the up-and-coming rapper about his next EP, the issue of cultural appropriation in hip hop and how social media has changed his relationship with his supporters

Album: A Tribe Called Quest – We Got it From Here…Thank You 4 Your Service

Eighteen years after their last studio album, ATCQ return with tributes to the old and the up-and-coming, writes Will Whiting