KA II
The Abyss
28 June 2021
If Hip Hop isn’t “what it used to be” you have yet to dig underground – featuring artists like Roc Marciano • Big Ghost ltd • Westside Gunn • Rome Street • 38 Spesh • Stove God Cooks • Chis Crack • DJ Muggs
Green Papaya- Lianne La Havas
3 November 2020
Although the globe is in an unsteady time, it’s clear that humanity all around the world has slowed down in one way or the other. It’s in times of uncertainty that I believe humans simplify and get back to what matters, whatever that may be to you.
Rectifiya – Keiyaa
6 May 2020
In times of uncertainty and imbalance I find myself diving into myself rather than offer my energy to the outside. I’ve come to understand this is as a process of healing, a way to rectify what is off in my spirit…
The Worst In Me – KAYTRANADA ft. Tinashe
29 January 2020
There are times an artist only goes as far as their sound takes them. Raw vocal ability is still a main ingredient, but it is the sound and music that accentuates ones voice. The music is the ingredient that pulls the listener in closer in to what the artist is singing and/or saying…
Another Time Lover – Kadhja Bonet
15 January 2020
When a shooting star darts across the night time sky, and you happen to be with a group of others, chances are that someone in the group will yell to everyone to look up in the sky to catch a glimpse of the star across the sky…
101 FM – Little Simz
18 December 2019
It was 2016 when I first heard about a rapper out of the UK by the name of Little Simz. I was put onto her music by way of a repost by Syd, front-woman of The Internet who’s featured on Simz 2016 album. “Stillness In Wonderland” is the title of her second album, but my first introduction to her music…
Freedom – Sampa the Great
16 October 2019
The road traveled for an artist is a road full of discovery, uncertainty, exploration, pits stops, and re-do’s. Sometimes the direction of the road takes you away from your space of familiarity, from friends and from the community that nurtured your creativity. For an artist finding their way it could feel like losing a critical part of yourself, and having to find it all over again…
Fonk Street – Lynda Dawn
11 September 2019
Funk is a music steeped in strong bass lines, enchanting grooves, and a sense of generating movement in the music that creates a reaction within the human body to get up and move. It’s a music guided by the feeling. This sense of feeling and movement within the music generates a freeing element within…
New Apartment – Ari Lennox
30 July 2019
Summer is often full of outdoor activities, parties, celebrations, lounging, yard sales, hikes, and plenty other activities. In the past week or so I’ve been asking people close to me what comes to their mind are when they think of summer…
gotchuallinCHECK!!!! – Linafornia
8 May 2019
Three years ago I discovered a lady instrumentalist from Leimert Park, Los Angeles. I believe it’s essential to point out that she is a woman because if one were to look at the landscape and overall demographic of the Hip Hop beat scene, one immediately notices the small amount of women pushing out beats compared to the substantial amount of men in the movement…
Intro: Babs – Benny The Butcher ft Keisha Plum
13 March 2019
If one were to assess the evolution of rapping, it would be unwise to exclude and depreciate the influence and blueprint laid by The Last Poets. Commemorating what would have been Malcolm X’s 43rd Birthday, The Last poets were formed in Marcus Garvey Park, East Harlem, on May 10, 1968. Their creation of a free, jazz-like way of conveying spoken word poetry and gift of gab would go on to influence some of the greatest emcees to touch the mic…
WTP – Teyana Taylor
29 January 2019
One can say Teyana Taylor’s 2018 album was shakey, unfinished, and left by the wayside of Kanye’s Good Music albums. Taylor herself publicly expressed her displeasure with the roll out and finished product…