Category: jazz rap
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Loyle Carner: “hugo” album review: at his most brutally honest
Conscientious jazz-rap is never an easy feat to excel at. The lyrical ingenuity is just as important as the butter-melt beats accompanying it… It takes a good MC to not only perfect both but to continue with consistency across three records. Our man Loyle Carner has been doing just that. It took a just under […]
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Kofi Stone: “Nobody Cares Till Everybody Does” – Your Album Review
As we still swim in the streams of jazz rap and lo-fi hip hop with Loyle Carner, we move to a fellow Londoner and a fellow underground hip-hop rapper with Kofi Stone. “Life’s already harder when your skin’s a little darker.” ___ ______// From Stories in Pyjamas to Diamonds in the Water…Kofi’s weaving flows are […]
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Your Singles Review – “Hate” by Loyle Carner
Wisdom, I fear him: Getting bodied by fast-whipped lyrical sincerity is becoming such a norm for British MCs right now. Interpolated with both the grime and jazz-rap games, the first names of Dave, Loyle and Ghetts become buzz words within a world we see ourselves in.// A dude like Loyle Carner is riding waves within […]
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