All photography by Birdy, album art by 0TT0 “Honestly now I feel like I’m talking to my psychiatrist,” BAGMAN admits … More
Category: hip-hop
GSC Presents Our 100 Favorite Albums of 2021
The album of the year list has become quite a funny spectacle in the last half decade or so. They … More
Review: Magnetic The Shaman’s Three Treasures
Magnetic The Shaman is a Philadelphia hip-hop artist on the rise. With three EPs, two LPs and a handful of … More
Houston Rapper seFu Shines Bright on New Album Stars are Born In Pairs
Comparison is known as the thief of joy, but on seFu’s eleven-song project, Stars Are Born In Pairs, the young … More
In Conversation: Emerging from ‘Murky Waters’ Akron Rapper and Beatmaker Dawg9000’s Self-Refinement Sets Stage for Soundscape “Beyond Reproach”
Dawg9000 portrait shot by yesfatherken My first encounter with dawg9000 happened late one night in Brooklyn, as a group of … More
Nappy Nina and JWords Shine on New Album Double Down
If you pay attention you can watch an album get A&R’d and recorded in real time on your timeline. A … More
MAVI Sets the Stage for a Soul-Bearing Masterclass with His End of the Earth EP
With spotlights shining on rappers like MIKE and AKAI SOLO, NYC based rising stars of a burgeoning lo-fi poet MC … More
“My intention is for my music to be able to resonate with all people.” maassai on her album With The Shifts, Blackness, Womanhood, and Collaborations
The resident therapist talks to maasaai about her full-length debut With The Shifts, her early influences, her collaboration process, Blackness, and more.
Boston Based Sashathem Drops Non-Binary Anthem “Hellraiser”
Southern bred, Boston-based singer/songwriter/rapper/producer/multi-hyphenate Sashathem has been gearing up for their debut album Glass House with a steady stream of … More
YTB are Queens Royalty Walking through Iconic Spots in their Kingdom on Shawny Binladen’s New Video “Yellow Tears”
Shawny Binladen had himself a productive Christmas, or as they call it in Woodhull, Wickmas. He dropped his hotly anticipated … More