One of my favourite tracks from the last couple of years, “Thou Shalt Always Kill” features Dan Le Sac (or is it Scroobius Pip?) reciting pop-culture commandments for the post-modern hipster crowd over an infectious beat. Intellectual, ironic and über cool (until, like “Napolean Dynamite,” it succumbed to over exposure and quickly lost popularity), “Thou Shalt Always Kill” is a winner.
The 20th anniversary of Black on Both Sides has been getting a lot of attention on social media. And it’s clear why: the album is a legit classic. When it dropped in 1999, Black on Both Sides was heralded as a rallying cry for intelligent hip-hop, a strike back against the genre’s capitulation to profit […]
Medhane and Deem Spencer complement each other nicely on this new track, “Voyager,” which is built on fuzzy, reverberating synths and thumping kicks, the whole effect dream-like and meditative. You can listen on Youtube but there’s a higher quality version on Spotify. Photo credit: Ade Sayeed
It’s been a minute since I’ve contributed to this site, so it seems fitting that my first post in over year is about the new Gang Starr track, “Family and Loyalty,” featuring J. Cole. The group’s first new music since 2003’s The Ownerz, the song was dropped as a surprise after DJ Premier teased the […]
